killing fieldn.

Brit.

/ˈkɪlɪŋ fiːld/, U.S.

/ˈkɪlɪŋ ˌfild/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: killing n., field n.¹

Etymology: < killing n. + field n.¹

1. Usually in plural = killing ground n. 1.In later use with conscious reference to sense 2.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun]

fieldOE

forest1297

seta1425

chasea1440

hunting-fieldc1680

hunting-ground1721

flying county1856

hunt1857

moor1860

the Shires1860

driving moor1873

beat1875

killing ground1877

flying country1883

killing field1915

1915 Science 41 903 Commercial killing had been cut off and the killing fields were bare.

1922 Science 55 506 A few bullets and buckshot are found in the carcases of males almost every year on the killing fields, although no seal can be shot legally.

1988 Green Line Oct. 9/1 The hunting season is upon us once again, and the sabs take to the ‘killing fields’ with their usual courage and expertise.

1995 Afr. Amer. Rev. 29 454/2 I've reconsidered my strategy in the anti-ivory struggle... I don't want to harm anybody, but what about the killing fields of Africa?

2. In singular and (usually) in plural. A place of warfare or unrest associated with heavy loss of (civilian) life, esp. as the result of massacre or genocide; (also, in extended use) any place in which a murder or other killing occurs.Popularized as the name of the film The Killing Fields (released 1984, but see quot. 1981), concerning events in Cambodia (or Kampuchea, as it was then named) under the Khmer Rouge regime.

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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of

butchery?1552

slaughterhouse1578

shamble1593

Aceldama1607

corpse-factory1919

killing ground1946

killing field1980

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line > area with high concentration of fatalities

killing zone1970

killing field1980

kill zone1981

1980 S. Schanberg in N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Jan. 16/1 The diplomat, who had served in Phnom Penh, knew the odds of anyone emerging safely from a country that was being transformed into a society of terror and purges and ‘killing fields’.

1981 B. Robinson (title of screenplay: first draft) The killing fields.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Apr. a2/3 Foreign tourists could be flown in to see both the monument and a sample of Mr. Pol Pot's killing fields.

1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 Nov. 3/1 A suburban kitchen became the killing field for Verdich whose naked, headless body was found in an Ashgrove quarry.

1997 A. Barnett This Time vi. 53 A war [i.e. the American civil war] that pioneered the application of mechanical reproduction to military affairs and pre-figured the killing fields of the twentieth century.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	killing field
释义	killing fieldn. Brit. /ˈkɪlɪŋ fiːld/, U.S. /ˈkɪlɪŋ ˌfild/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: killing n., field n.¹ Etymology: < killing n. + field n.¹ 1. Usually in plural = killing ground n. 1.In later use with conscious reference to sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] fieldOE forest1297 seta1425 chasea1440 hunting-fieldc1680 hunting-ground1721 flying county1856 hunt1857 moor1860 the Shires1860 driving moor1873 beat1875 killing ground1877 flying country1883 killing field1915 1915 Science 41 903 Commercial killing had been cut off and the killing fields were bare. 1922 Science 55 506 A few bullets and buckshot are found in the carcases of males almost every year on the killing fields, although no seal can be shot legally. 1988 Green Line Oct. 9/1 The hunting season is upon us once again, and the sabs take to the ‘killing fields’ with their usual courage and expertise. 1995 Afr. Amer. Rev. 29 454/2 I've reconsidered my strategy in the anti-ivory struggle... I don't want to harm anybody, but what about the killing fields of Africa? 2. In singular and (usually) in plural. A place of warfare or unrest associated with heavy loss of (civilian) life, esp. as the result of massacre or genocide; (also, in extended use) any place in which a murder or other killing occurs.Popularized as the name of the film The Killing Fields (released 1984, but see quot. 1981), concerning events in Cambodia (or Kampuchea, as it was then named) under the Khmer Rouge regime. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of butchery?1552 slaughterhouse1578 shamble1593 Aceldama1607 corpse-factory1919 killing ground1946 killing field1980 society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] > front or front line > area with high concentration of fatalities killing zone1970 killing field1980 kill zone1981 1980 S. Schanberg in N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Jan. 16/1 The diplomat, who had served in Phnom Penh, knew the odds of anyone emerging safely from a country that was being transformed into a society of terror and purges and ‘killing fields’. 1981 B. Robinson (title of screenplay: first draft) The killing fields. 1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Apr. a2/3 Foreign tourists could be flown in to see both the monument and a sample of Mr. Pol Pot's killing fields. 1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 14 Nov. 3/1 A suburban kitchen became the killing field for Verdich whose naked, headless body was found in an Ashgrove quarry. 1997 A. Barnett This Time vi. 53 A war [i.e. the American civil war] that pioneered the application of mechanical reproduction to military affairs and pre-figured the killing fields of the twentieth century. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1915
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