: a scene of mass killing (as from a battle or massacre)
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And so, as the Khmer Rouge continued to fertilize the killing fields with the corpses of his countrymen, Toek Tik slipped away and went on the run.—
Matthew Campbell,
Bloomberg,
22 May 2026 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 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.—
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