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mass graves

mass graves is the plural of mass grave.

Meaning of mass grave

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

Questions about mass graves

What is mass graves the plural of?
Mass graves is the plural of mass grave.

Words near mass graves in the dictionary

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

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