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death camp en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɛθ kæmp/ (General-American)
• [dɛθ kʰɛəːmp] (General-American)
• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A camp destined to cause the death of its inmates.
2. A camp destined to cause the death of its inmates. ▸ Such a camp built during the Holocaust by the Nazis to kill mainly Jews, generally by means of gassing.
3. A prison camp in which a large number of prisoners die, ascribed to various reasion such as starvation, disease, brutality, and neglect, but not necessarily thought to be intentional.
   • Included in this figure, since the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, are over 250,000 boat people and 250,000 other civilians who were either ruthlessly murdered outright or who perished in communist death camps set up to "re-educate" non-communists. 2004, Jeffrey F. Addicott, Terrorism Law: The Rule of Law and the War on Terror, 2nd edition, page 117:
   • In America's death camps, 1,500,000 babies annually are put to death in their mother's womb. The war being waged on the womb front killed more children than soldiers in the history of warfare. 2007, Steve Bates, Bible Crusade, page 79:
   • Three years after Stalin's death, with ghostly figures returning to Moscow and Leningrad from Stalin's death camps, the leaders in the Kremlin agreed that Stalin's ghost had to be laid to rest if they were to get on with the reforms that would allow them to stay in power. 2007, John P. C. Matthews, Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, page 618:

Forms

Synonyms

extermination camp

Translations (53)

uk та́бір сме́рті (facility) · es campo de exterminio (facility) · fr camp de la mort (facility) · sl taborišče smrti (facility) · is útrýmingarbúðir (facility) · it campo di sterminio (facility) · nl vernietigingskamp (facility) · ga campa an bháis (facility) · sl uničevalno taborišče (facility) · ja 絶滅収容所 (facility) · mk логор на смртта (facility) · th ค่ายมรณะ (facility) · ar مُعَسْكَر إِبَادَة (facility) · ms kem penghapusan (facility) · nn dødsleir (facility) · lt naikinimo stovykla (facility) · sh logor smrti (facility) · el στρατόπεδο εξόντωσης (facility) · be ла́гер сьме́рці (facility) · hu haláltábor (facility) · de Vernichtungslager (facility) · bg ла́гер на смъртта́ (facility) · da dødslejr (facility) · tr imha kampı (facility) · be ла́гер сме́рці (facility) · ru ла́герь сме́рти (facility) · da udryddelseslejr (facility) · az ölüm düşərgəsi (facility) · yi אומברענג־לאַגער (facility) · sk tábor smrti (facility) · pl obóz zagłady (facility) · ga campa géibhinn (facility) · nb dødsleir (facility) · fi kuolemanleiri (facility) · sv förintelseläger (facility) · cs tábor smrti (facility) · ar مُعَسْكَر مَوْت (facility) · pl obóz śmierci (facility) · lo ຄ້າຍມໍລະນະ (facility) · sh логор смрти (facility) · nb tilintetgjørelsesleir (facility) · he מַחֲנֵה הַשְׁמָדָה (facility) · ro lagăr de exterminare (facility) · fa-ira اُرْدوگاهِ مَرْگ (facility) · ca camp d'extermini (facility) · ko 절멸수용소 (facility) · hy մահվան ճամբար (facility) · de Todeslager (facility) · cmn 滅絕營 /灭绝营 (facility) · fi tuhoamisleiri (facility) · he מחנה מוות \ מַחֲנֵה מָוֶת (facility) · fr camp d'extermination (facility) · pt campo de extermínio (facility)