Meaning of death march | Babel Free

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

Examples

“the Bataan Death March⟳”

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

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