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graveyard

[ greyv-yahrd ]

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.



graveyard

/ 藞伞谤别瑟惫藢箩蓱藧诲 /

noun

  1. a place for graves; a burial ground, esp a small one or one in a churchyard
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of graveyard1

First recorded in 1765鈥75; grave 1 + yard 2
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Stuck halfway out of the massive graveyard set piece, Gaga performs the song with more yearning than ever before, her agile voice rising and falling as it cascades across the desperation in her lyrics.

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Rather than continue to stimulate important conversations, the Dodgers are back to whistling past America鈥檚 graveyard, pretending there is nothing hypocritical about visiting President Trump one week and celebrating Jackie Robinson Day the next.

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There was even a crotch cam in that graveyard sequence beaming grainy images of Gaga鈥檚 rhythmic thrusting to the enormous video screens flanking the stage.

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The 70-year-old lives in a small mud house on the outskirts of Quetta, not far from a symbolic graveyard dedicated to the missing.

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Now the graveyard Mr Durma has tended for decades paints a vivid picture of the scale of death.

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