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deathmarch

deathmarch is the alternative form of death march.

Meaning of death march

Noun

death march (plural death marches)

  1. A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey.
    • the Bataan Death March
  2. A project that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork, or whose participants feel it is destined to fail.
  3. Synonym of dead march (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”).
    • Jacob Scheele was led to the gallows as a band played a death march.2015, Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England, page 282
    Synonyms:
    dead march

Forms of deathmarch

pluraldeathmarches

Questions about deathmarch

What is deathmarch the alternative form of?
Deathmarch is the alternative form of death march.

Words near deathmarch in the dictionary

  1. deathlocks
  2. deathlore
  3. deathly
  4. deathly pale
  5. deathmaking
  6. deathmarch
  7. deathmarches
  8. deathmask
  9. deathmasks
  10. deathmatch
  11. deathmatched

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