mass burial
Shared grave site
Mass burial is the interment of multiple bodies in a single grave or site.
Mass burials typically occur after catastrophic events—wars, epidemics, natural disasters—when individual burial becomes impractical or impossible.
The term often carries grim associations with atrocities and their concealment: Investigators discovered mass burial sites in the occupied territory.
Mass graves may also serve as evidence in war crimes prosecutions.
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- unmarked graveBurial site without identification
- pitFruit's hard seed
- plague pitMass grave for epidemic dead
- intermentPutting a body underground
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