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graveyard
[ greyv-yahrd ]
noun
- a burial ground, often associated with smaller rural churches, as distinct from a larger urban or public cemetery.
- Informal. graveyard shift.
- a place in which obsolete or derelict objects are kept:
an automobile graveyard.
graveyard
/ ˈɡɪˌɑː /
noun
- a place for graves; a burial ground, esp a small one or one in a churchyard
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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.
Now the graveyard Mr Durma has tended for decades paints a vivid picture of the scale of death.
At the same time, Young said, his anecdote about family graveyards and homeland suggests another political tendency - a "disturbing undertone of nativism".
The only clue to the past is a small part of the wall from the original entrance to the graveyard.
As the graveyard requiem kept escalating in its intensity, I remembered the advice that Clinton gave to Eddie Hazel when he first unleashed that voodoo guitar seance: “Play like your mother just died.”
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