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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A site of large-scale, often systematic killing, especially a site of prolonged genocidal murder.

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  • noun the field of fire of a machine gun or artillery
  • noun a place of mass slaughter; especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia

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  • noun (usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance)

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