as in cemetery
a piece of land used for burying the dead
a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town
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Recent Examples of boneyard
Dinosaur biology became dynamic, rather than a boneyard.
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New Atlas, 24 June 2025
His dad worked at the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force base in Tucson and his family lived near the end of the runway.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2024
Loading your audio article Last year’s historic marine heat wave turned Florida’s coral reefs into bleached boneyards.
—Claire Grunewald, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024
Last year’s historic marine heat wave turned Florida’s coral reefs into bleached boneyards.
—Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
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New Atlas, 24 June 2025
His dad worked at the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force base in Tucson and his family lived near the end of the runway.
—Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2024
Loading your audio article Last year’s historic marine heat wave turned Florida’s coral reefs into bleached boneyards.
—Claire Grunewald, Orlando Sentinel, 8 July 2024
Last year’s historic marine heat wave turned Florida’s coral reefs into bleached boneyards.
—Claire Grunewald, Miami Herald, 8 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boneyard
Noun
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The cemetery has about 2,000 burial plots remaining.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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Alongside the bodies of martyrs from Iran’s past wars, the dusty earth of Behesht-e Zahra cemetery now cradles the remains of protesters killed in January’s protests, the latest conflict to rake Iran’s streets.—
Frederik Pleitgen,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Ayers has a plus arm and has plus power, flashing it more in the Arizona Fall League last year (where his exit velocity peaked at 111 mph) than in the regular season, since Myrtle Beach is a graveyard for would-be home runs.—
Keith Law,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Cities took on the atmosphere of graveyards, and mourning black became the dominant color of daily life.—
Shahrnush Parsipur,
Time,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Boneyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boneyard. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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