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Meanings of graverobber in English

Catalan
lladre de cadàvers
Spanish
gul

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

        lladre de cadàvers
        Synonyms
        Examples for "ghoul"
        Examples for "ghoul"
        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
        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 graverobber in English
        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
        Translations for graverobber
        Spanish
        gul
        Graverobber through the time