graveyard
/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.56 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They're all out on this southbound odyssey / And the train pulls out of Kankakee / Rolls past the houses, farms, and fields / Passing towns that have no name / And freight yards full of old black men / And the graveyards of rusted automobiles."
- "Certain cards place other cards here because such cards might have abilities deemed too strong if they sent them to the graveyard instead."
- "If you want to be tricky, though, Rapid Decay can be a flying elbow drop out of nowhere for a surprise win against graveyard manipulation decks; they will always see a Beetles coming, remember."
- "When a player does discard or use a card or when a creature also died or a spell gets destroyed, that card gets placed into the player's graveyard."
- "graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch"
- "Her husband, of course, came dressed as Herman Melville.) She's a veteran of these marathons, and warned me about the forthcoming graveyard stretch—when Moby-Dick melds with the altered brain chemistry of sleep deprivation."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
aircraft graveyard
automobile graveyard
elephants' graveyard
flies' graveyard
ghost in the graveyard
graveyard chompers
graveyard cough
graveyard market