graveyard

Definitions

1. A tract of land in which the dead are buried
2. A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
3. A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable. The discard pile, in some trading card games. A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there
4. A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
   broadly, figuratively
5. The discard pile, in some trading card games.
   broadly, figuratively
6. The discard pile, in some trading card games
7. A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
   broadly, figuratively
8. A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there
9. A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity.
   attributive
10. A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity
11. Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).
    US, slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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