: a scene of mass killing (as from a battle or massacre)
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But the passage of time had transformed the putative killing field: The once-barren hills were now covered by a towering forest of Douglas firs, planted after the war.—Malcolm Hillgartner Tanya Pérez Lance Neal, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025 One of them is the location of his trove of missing tapes, which some believe detail how his $1 million estate, the Fox Hollow Farm, became his personal killing field.—Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2025 But these things will only underscore that 1950s auto racing was a brutal killing field.—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023 The province had been one enormous killing field, and there was nothing neat and tidy about the aftermath of a B-52 strike.—George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022 See All Example Sentences for killing field
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