mass grave

collocation in English

meaningsofmassandgrave

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mass
adjective[before noun]
uk
/mæs/us
/mæs/
having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a ...
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grave
noun[C]
uk
/ɡreɪv/us
/ɡreɪv/
a place in the ground where a dead person ...
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(Definition ofmassandgravefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmass grave

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The island is the site of amassgrave, believed to contain the remains of roughly 150 of those casualties.
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The victims were stripped of valuable articles (and partially of clothes), gassed, and left in amassgrave.
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Their final resting place was in amassgraveon the grounds of the station.
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It was on the edge of amassgrave.
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At present, the coalition has received reports of more than 80massgravesites, and has confirmed the existence of more than 20.
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I stood in amassgraveof 85 eighty-year-old women whose heads had been crushed and whose bodies had been ripped open.
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Afterwards, they were buried in amassgrave.
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It became theirmassgravewith 10 men, women and children huddled together in the darkness surrounded by their best carpets and the family's valuables.
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At least 8 000 died, their bodies lost in the blood-soaked quagmire of the battlefield, a field which became amassgrave.
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It does not have the resources to guard suspectedmassgravesites on a continuous basis without detriment to this mission.
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On the edge of my constituency, amassgravecontains the remains of 400,000 culled sheep.
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They fear that they will be put into the equivalent of amassgrave.
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I was witness to the exhumation of bodies from amassgrave.
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She told me that in every village there is amassgrave, and that every garden seems to have a grave in it.
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The bodies in the ditch outside the cemetery were not exhumed from theirmassgrave, and were not counted.
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Amassgravewith up to 30 victims was found.
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His skull was found in themassgrave.
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He further stated that clearing out the bodies would be impossible so the site should be left as amassgrave.
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