Sentence:  Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm <WSD>senescence</WSD> and death: it's like it's a game played on the skin of a void and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.