Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that digs graves.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose occupation is the digging of graves.
- noun A beetle of the genus Necrophorus: so called from its habit of burying dead bodies. Also named sexton. See cut under
burying-beetle . - noun A digger-wasp, as of the genus Sphex, which digs holes in the clay for its eggs, with which it deposits a store of disabled caterpillars and spiders, to serve as food for the grub when hatched.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A digger of graves.
- noun (Zoöl.) See Burying beetle, under
Bury , v. t.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person employed to
dig graves . - noun A
necrophore , or burying beetle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who earns a living by digging graves
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Examples
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Totodet was still traumatized by his job as the jail's "gravedigger," dumping hundreds of his fellow prisoners into mass graves.
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Totodet was still traumatized by his job as the jail's "gravedigger," dumping hundreds of his fellow prisoners into mass graves.
Justice Denied in Africa Reed Brody 2010
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He dismissed Stalin, Patenaude reports, as an "outstanding mediocrity" and the "gravedigger" of the revolution.
unknown title 2009
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The actor who played the creepy gravedigger in the Van Helsing movie is Tom Stevenson.
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Ophelia and Gertrude are played by the same actor there are just six performers in all, and the gravedigger scene is acted in dumb show right at the beginning, to a roaring track by Godspeed You!
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In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker.
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary 2010
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"You are born here, they will not hurt you" so the gravedigger has predicted for his daughter, which will turn out to be true.
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates: Book summary 2010
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Who played that creepy gravedigger in the Van Helsing movie?
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Barnardo Pip Donaghy is also the player king and the gravedigger.
Multiple Personalities at Play Paul Levy 2011
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Or, of a skull he holds up to the gravedigger, "As if 'twere Cain's jawbone that did the first significant pause murder."
Hamlet – review 2011
dailyword commented on the word gravedigger
There is also a monster truck named this, and it is House's favorite.
July 9, 2012