- a site of indiscriminate and cruel killing of large numbers of people, especially a place of wartime genocide: The concentration camps of Germany and the killing fields of Cambodia are graphic displays of the presence of evil in our world.
- a dangerous place where an excessive number of people have died, as by murder, riots, or drug overdose: Some 300 lives are violently ended each year on the killing fields of New York's streets and sidewalks, about half of them pedestrians or cyclists.
