killing fields

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Definition of killing fields in English English dictionary: a number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s; plural form of killing field; a British film about the events in Cambodia in 1975-79, when Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were in power and killed millions of people (1984)
killing field: a place of mass slaughter; especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia
killing field: the field of fire of a machine gun or artillery
killing field: (usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance)

killing fields

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kill·ing Fields

kîlîng fildz

/ˈkələɴɢ ˈfēldz/ /ˈkɪlɪŋ ˈfiːldz/

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