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death march

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey.
  2. A project that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork, or whose participants feel it is destined to fail.
  3. Synonym of dead march (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”).

Equivalents

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Examples

“the Bataan Death March⟳”
“Jacob Scheele was led to the gallows as a band played a death march⟳.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

death mask death messenger death metal death metaller death nail death note

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