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death march en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey.
    • the Bataan Death March
  2. A project that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork, or whose participants feel it is destined to fail.
  3. Synonym of dead march (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”).
    • Jacob Scheele was led to the gallows as a band played a death march. 2015, Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England, page 282:

Forms

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death marches Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

forced march

Synonyms

dead march

Translations (18)

da dødsmarch (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · cmn 死亡行軍 /死亡行军 (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · ja 死の行軍 (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · fr marche de la mort (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · nl dodenmars (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · de Todesmarsch (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · sh марш смрти (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · ko 죽음의 행진 (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · tl martsa ng kamatayan (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · ja デスマーチ (project requiring stretch of unsustainable overwork) · cs pochod smrti (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · sh marš smrti (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · sv dödsmarsch (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · pl marsz śmierci (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · fi kuolemanmarssi (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · ja デスマ (project requiring stretch of unsustainable overwork) · ja 死の行進 (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey) · ru ма́рш сме́рти (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey)