: a scene of mass killing (as from a battle or massacre)
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Another a Cambodian grandmother of eight who fled Pol Pot’s killing fields as a girl nearly 50 years ago.—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026 In Iran, the killing fields extended across the country where, since Dec. 28, hundreds of thousands of citizens had assembled in the streets chanting first, for relief from an economy in freefall, and soon for the downfall of the Islamic regime.—Kay Armin Serjoie, Time, 25 Jan. 2026 Each slab operates like a sedimentary layer of personal grief, a vestige of vast killing fields.—Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025 Private pleas for Biden to show some heart were simply an inadequate response to the killing fields of Gaza, which anyone with eyes could recognize as a genocide.—Book Marks
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