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mass grave

mass grave noun: a grave (in any of the countable senses) containing many corpses.

mass grave: a grave (in any of the countable senses) containing many corpses
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Noun

mass grave (plural mass graves)

  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...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...2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024

mass grave meaning in Bengali, Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese

mass grave in Bengali

mass grave
গণকবর gonkobor

mass grave in Arabic

a grave containing many corpses
مَقْبَرَة جَمَاعِيَّة maqbara jamāʕiyya

mass grave in Persian

a grave containing many corpses
گور جمعی gôr-e jam'i

mass grave in Vietnamese

a grave containing many corpses
mộ tập thể

Forms of mass grave

pluralmass graves

Questions about mass grave

What does mass grave mean?
Mass grave means a grave (in any of the countable senses) containing many corpses.
What is mass grave in Bengali?
Mass grave in Bengali is গণকবর (gonkobor). See Mass grave meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is mass grave?
Mass grave is a noun.
What is the plural of mass grave?
The plural of mass grave is mass graves.

Words near mass grave in the dictionary

  1. mass function
  2. mass funeral
  3. mass funerals
  4. mass gainer
  5. mass gainers
  6. mass grave
  7. mass graves
  8. mass haul diagram
  9. mass haul diagrams
  10. mass hysteria
  11. mass line

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mass grave (page history and authors); গণকবর (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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