Definition of "graveyard" []

• A burial ground; a cemetery. (noun)
• A place where worn-out or obsolete equipment or objects are kept: an automobile graveyard. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The forecast, though, from the Hurricane Center is anywhere from killing this storm in what they call the graveyard of the eastern Caribbean to well into a major hurricane as we get it into the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend."
• "Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, today said his fighters will turn southern Lebanon into what he called a graveyard for Israeli troops."
• "Hassan Nasrallah says he wants to see an end to the violence, but if there must be a bigger battle Nasrallah vows to turn southern Lebanon into what he calls a graveyard for Israeli troops."