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mass grave

n. a grave containing many human corpses, either as the result of natural disaster or war

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Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing a multiple number of human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations defines a mass grave as a burial site which contains three or more victims of execution.

Usage examples of "mass grave".

Out of solicitude for the men's relatives, who would have been crushed by the expense of caring for so large and flower-consuming a mass grave, the authorities assumed full responsibility for maintenance and perhaps even for transplantation.

They knew what grim work went on out of their sight, burying the dead in a mass grave.

Sharpe had an impulse to move back into the shelter of the trees, but lazily stayed where he was, then wished he had obeyed the impulse when Doggett, catching sight of his green jacket, spurred past the Ggth's mass grave.

Night had a way of inviting solitude, and he felt welcome on this mass grave with all its echoing memories of pain, anguish and despair.

They had buried twelve refugees in a mass grave this bitter cold morning, including a young mother and her newborn babe.

Working together, Marethyn and Majja managed to half slide, half drag Basse back to the edge of the mass grave.

Six months after the massacre, when the wounded had recovered and the last flowers on the mass grave had withered, Aureliano Segundo went to fetch her from the distant city where she lived with her father and he married her in Macondo with a noisy celebration that lasted twenty days.

At dawn Abbot Heribert would consecrate a new piece of ground at the edge of the abbey enclosure, for a mass grave.

And just a few days ago, they uncovered a mass grave on the island.