"death march" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: death marches [plural]
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  1. A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey. Categories (topical): Murder Translations (forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey): 死亡行軍 (Chinese Mandarin), 死亡行军 (sǐwáng xíngjūn) (Chinese Mandarin), pochod smrti [masculine] (Czech), dødsmarch [common-gender] (Danish), dodenmars [masculine] (Dutch), kuolemanmarssi (Finnish), marche de la mort [feminine] (French), Todesmarsch [masculine] (German), 死の行進 (shi no kōshin) (Japanese), 死の行軍 (shi no kōgun) (Japanese), marsz śmierci [masculine] (Polish), ма́рш сме́рти (márš smérti) [masculine] (Russian), марш смрти [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), marš smrti [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), dödsmarsch [common-gender] (Swedish), martsa ng kamatayan (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-death_march-en-noun-gGnqhakY Disambiguation of Murder: 40 17 43 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 31 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 42 26 33 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 31 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 45 26 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 41 35 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 44 32 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 45 30 25 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 41 32 27 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 44 30 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 46 32 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 42 27 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 44 30 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 46 32 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 46 28 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 47 31 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 49 28 23 Disambiguation of 'forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey': 92 3 4
  2. (management) A project that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork, or whose participants feel it is destined to fail. Categories (topical): Management, Murder Translations (project requiring stretch of unsustainable overwork): デスマーチ (desu māchi) (Japanese), デスマ (desuma) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-death_march-en-noun-dQwEo3sD Disambiguation of Murder: 40 17 43 Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Danish translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 41 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 41 35 23 Topics: management Disambiguation of 'project requiring stretch of unsustainable overwork': 7 90 2
  3. Synonym of dead march (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”) Categories (topical): Murder Synonyms: dead march [synonym, synonym-of] Related terms: forced march
    Sense id: en-death_march-en-noun-BibGa5bD Disambiguation of Murder: 40 17 43 Categories (other): Terms with Danish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 41 35 23

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.