death march

English

Noun

death march (plural death marches)

1. A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey.

   the Bataan Death March

2. (management) 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.”)
   • 2015, Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England, page 282:

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

Translations

forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死亡行軍／死亡行军 (sǐwáng xíngjūn)

• Czech: pochod smrti m
• Danish: dødsmarch c
• Dutch: dodenmars (nl) m
• Finnish: kuolemanmarssi
• French: marche de la mort f
• German: Todesmarsch (de) m
• Japanese: 死の行進 (shi no kōshin), 死の行軍 (shi no kōgun)
• Polish: marsz śmierci m
• Russian: ма́рш сме́рти m (márš smérti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: марш смрти m

  Roman: marš smrti m

• Swedish: dödsmarsch (sv) c
• Tagalog: martsa ng kamatayan

project requiring stretch of unsustainable overwork

• Japanese: デスマーチ (ja) (desu māchi), デスマ (desuma)

See also

• forced march