Death camp
/dɛθ kæmp/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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Noun
- 1 A prison camp in which a large number of prisoners die for various reasons, such as starvation, disease, brutality, and neglect.
"Included in this figure, since the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, are over 250,000 boat people and 250,000 other civilians who were either ruthlessly murdered outright or who perished in communist death camps set up to "re-educate" non-communists."
- 2 a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed wordnet
- 3 A concentration camp built during the Holocaust by the Nazis to kill especially the Jewish people through gassing.
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More examples"Included in this figure, since the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, are over 250,000 boat people and 250,000 other civilians who were either ruthlessly murdered outright or who perished in communist death camps set up to "re-educate" non-communists."