Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
killing field en · NOUN
Meanings
-
The field of fire of a machine gun or artillery.
The story of how the son of a top-ranking US spy died fighting for Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is an unlikely tale of how homegrown anger at the United States and online radicalisation led from a middle-class Virginia childhood to the killing fields of eastern Ukraine.
2025 April 25, Andrew Roth, “Son of CIA deputy director was killed while fighting for Russia, report says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
-
A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
Forms