death camp

noun

: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed

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They were imprisoned from 1941 to 1945 at Theresienstadt, known as a way station for most there, who were eventually sent to death camps. Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2025 Weeks after others tried to portray Trump as America’s homegrown Adolf Hitler, Matthews rolled out the tired analogy again, this time suggesting that the president will round up his critics and ship them to death camps. Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2025 The company gave €15,000 – about $16,500 – to each survivor who had been forced to pay for their own ticket to be transported in horrific conditions to death camps. Sarah Federman, The Conversation, 16 Apr. 2025 Nearly half of them were slain using poison gas, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, at death camps like Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. Dakin Andone, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for death camp

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First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of death camp was in 1944

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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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