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mass grave en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A grave (in any of the countable senses) containing many corpses.
   • Amid yellow pagodas pointing heavenward, Mr. Peng and a small group of volunteers built memorial arches across the park’s steep roads and paths lined with riotous subtropical vegetation. The site, in the Chenghai district of Shantou, was an appropriate place for memory — Buddhist pagodas are associated with the dead, and many local victims of the Cultural Revolution lie here, many buried in mass graves. 2016 October 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2016, Asia Pacific:
   • Udo found it unsettlingly easy not to think about the mass grave she and Imrich were leaving far behind them. She had laughed away the stress of almost dying — her companion was still shooting her concerned glances over that — and the euphoria was still real to her in a way the increasingly-distant dismal scene was not. It hadn't happened in her lifetime, not the version she'd been living. She hadn't experienced it. She'd been late to the tragedy. If she stopped to think about it, it would overwhelm her, so... 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:

Forms

Relateds

potter's field · plague pit

Translations (47)

vi mộ tập thể (a grave containing many corpses) · cs hromadný hrob (a grave containing many corpses) · pt vala comum (a grave containing many corpses) · sv massgrav (a grave containing many corpses) · lv brāļu kapi (a grave containing many corpses) · ja 集団墓地 (a grave containing many corpses) · cy bedd torfol (a grave containing many corpses) · be ма́савае пахава́нне (a grave containing many corpses) · be бра́цкая магі́ла (a grave containing many corpses) · hu tömegsír (a grave containing many corpses) · he קֶבֶר אַחִים (a grave containing many corpses) · da massegrav (a grave containing many corpses) · eo amastombejo (a grave containing many corpses) · pt vala coletiva (a grave containing many corpses) · az kütləvi məzarlıq (a grave containing many corpses) · sh masovna grobnica (a grave containing many corpses) · bg ма́сов гроб (a grave containing many corpses) · ru бра́тская моги́ла (a grave containing many corpses) · es fosa común (a grave containing many corpses) · ro groapă comună (a grave containing many corpses) · ar مَقْبَرَة جَمَاعِيَّة (a grave containing many corpses) · uk ма́сове захоро́нення (a grave containing many corpses) · sh масовна гробница (a grave containing many corpses) · pt cova coletiva (a grave containing many corpses) · pl mogiła zbiorowa (a grave containing many corpses) · ru ма́ссовое захороне́ние (a grave containing many corpses) · sk masový hrob (a grave containing many corpses) · nl massagraf (a grave containing many corpses) · ka მასიური საფლავი (a grave containing many corpses) · cmn 亂葬崗 /乱葬岗 (a grave containing many corpses) · kk туыс бауырластар қабірі (a grave containing many corpses) · ko 공동묘지 (a grave containing many corpses) · nl verzamelgraf (a grave containing many corpses) · mk масовна гробница (a grave containing many corpses) · fa گور جمعی (a grave containing many corpses) · nb massegrav (a grave containing many corpses) · bg братска могила (a grave containing many corpses) · fi joukkohauta (a grave containing many corpses) · it fossa comune (a grave containing many corpses) · cs masový hrob (a grave containing many corpses) · cmn 萬人坑 /万人坑 (a grave containing many corpses) · hy եղբայրական գերեզման (a grave containing many corpses) · km ផ្នូរដ៏ធំ (a grave containing many corpses) · tr toplu mezar (a grave containing many corpses) · be братэ́рская магі́ла (a grave containing many corpses) · uk бра́тська моги́ла (a grave containing many corpses) · cmn 萬人塚 /万人冢 (a grave containing many corpses)