mass grave

plural mass graves

1. A grave (in any of the countable senses) containing many corpses.

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   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 associated with the dead, and many local victims of the Cultural Revolution lie here, many buried in mass graves.

   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 dismal scene was not. It hadn't happened in her lifetime, not the version she'd been living. She hadn't experienced it. She'd been late to the tragedy. If she stopped to think about it, it would overwhelm her, so...

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