graveyard
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noun
1.
a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
2.
Informal. graveyard shift.
3.
a place in which obsolete or derelict objects are kept: an automobile graveyard.
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graveyard (ˈɡreɪvˌjɑːd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a place for graves; a burial ground, esp a small one or one in a churchyard | |
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Graveyard
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Example sentences
The car performed well on the safety test, and was set out in a sort of graveyard for crash-tested cars.
The building was near a graveyard which may have had something to do with it.
The film's penultimate scene in a snow-covered graveyard is a killer.
The murdered gorillas were carried out of the park and to a nearby graveyard on stretchers.
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