Definitions for mass grave
mass grave

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1. mass gravenoun

   a grave containing many human corpses, either as the result of natural disaster or war

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1. Mass grave

   A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution, although an exact definition is not unanimously agreed upon. Mass graves are usually created after many people die or are killed, and there is a desire to bury the corpses quickly for sanitation concerns. Although mass graves can be used during major conflicts such as war and crime, in modern times they may be used after a famine, epidemic, or natural disaster. In disasters, mass graves are used for infection and disease control. In such cases, there is often a breakdown of the social infrastructure that would enable proper identification and disposal of individual bodies.

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1. Mass grave

   A mass grave is a grave containing multiple number of human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial. There is no strict definition of the minimum number of bodies required to constitute a mass grave, although the United Nations defines a mass grave as a burial site which contains three or more victims of execution. Mass graves are an infamous variation on common burial, still occasionally practiced today under normal circumstances. Mass or communal burial was a common practice before the development of a dependable crematory chamber by an Italian named Brunetti in 1873. In Paris, the practice of mass burial, and in particular, the condition of the infamous Cimetière des Innocents, led Louis XVI to eliminate Parisian cemeteries. The remains were removed and placed in the Paris underground forming the early Catacombs. La Cimetière des Innocents alone had 6,000,000 dead to remove. Burial commenced outside of the city limits in what is now Père Lachaise Cemetery. Mass graves are usually created after a large number of people die or are killed, and there is a desire to bury the corpses quickly for sanitation concerns. In disasters, mass graves are used for infection and disease control.

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   Daniel

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mass grave in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mass grave in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of mass grave in a Sentence

1. Martin Schulz:

   The Mediterranean becomes a mass grave, gruesome scenes play out at borders, there is mutual blame - and those in greatest need, seeking our protection, are left without help.

2. De Filippi:

   A mass grave is being created in the Mediterranean Sea and European policies are responsible.

3. Phoebe Stubblefield:

   It wasn't until I told my parents that I'd been invited( in the late 1990s) to assist in the investigation of a possible unmarked mass grave that my mother said,' Your Aunt Anna lost her house( in the assault),' so, my parents knew about it, but it wasn't something they talked about. And actually, that might've been what got me looking into my family history in general.

4. Juan Manuel Santos:

   Is it a reasonable price to pay? And the answer is, of course it is, by far. Because the alternative is to continue 30 more years of war, mASS GRAVE.

5. Hugh Willmott:

   As people died, they were buried in a normal fashion in individual graves in normal cemeteries. When you find a mass grave, it tells you that the systems breaking down. Thats what we think happened here at Thornton.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mass_Grave
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Grave
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=mass grave