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Meanings of ghoul in English

Catalan
lladre de cadàvers
Spanish
gul

Someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection.

lladre de cadàvers
Russian
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Class of fictional entities.

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Examples for "graverobber"
Examples for "graverobber"
1
It was the tool of the modern-day graverobber, easy to conceal and wield.
Map of bones
2
And they're quite unscrupulous graverobbers for the most part.
Perdido Street Station
3
Burke and Hare, on the other hand, became legendary bogeymen and graverobbers as well as killers.
The Irish Times
4
"You graverobbers!" he shouted.
Swan Song
1
That's an improvement over your body snatcher remark the other night.
Calamity jayne
2
Or was she a body snatcher?
Damaged
3
You fucking body snatcher, I think.
The ministry of pain
4
Her gut was screaming body snatcher.
Damaged
5
But it gave him a start all the same to see, grinning at him, Carl Orc, the body snatcher.
Immortality Inc.
Usage of ghoul in English
1
The nearest ghoul was the closest threat, but not the greatest opportunity.
White night
2
The ghoul or fiend of modern society is the demon of alcohol.
Alvira: The Heroine of Vesuvius
3
That was the first time I had ever seen a floating ghoul.
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
4
I was tempted, and I felt my reality trickle into the ghoul.
A nameless witch
5
He wondered if he still had the recipe to create a ghoul.
The Alchemyst
6
Presently, the first scouts started following the trail back to the ghoul.
White night
7
She was among the last of those retreating from the ghoul onslaught.
White night
8
A ghoul's digestion can handle anything, up to and including nuclear waste.
The Bride Wore Black Leather
9
I couldn't make out any details of the ghoul, but nothing moved.
White night
10
Her ghoul Asa has been at my door twice in three days.
Fat vampire: a never coming of age story
11
Corpsetaker darted to one side, but the ghoul never even slowed down.
Dead beat
12
Thomas flung the ghoul off me, and it landed in a heap.
White night
13
I'd seen a flash of Li Xian's true face-hewas a ghoul.
Dead beat
14
With a grin that was a ghoul's grimace, she pulled the trigger.
The drawing of the three
15
Shattered bits of yellow fangs showered the deck as the ghoul rebounded.
White night
16
What sort of a wizard must he be, or ghoul, or madman?
The History of the Telephone
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Translations for ghoul
Spanish
gul
Ghoul through the time
Ghoul across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common