gravedigger

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grave·dig·ger /ˈɡreɪvˌdɪɡə $ -ər/ noun [countable]  BOMXsomeone whose job is to dig graves 掘墓人

Examples from the Corpus

gravedigger• Also patron of amputees, basketweavers, gravediggers, and hermits; he is invoked against eczema.• Hard-pressed gravediggers are burying as many as 100 people a day.• The width had been correctly judged on this occasion; but the gravediggers had skimped on the length.• They had heard ominous sounds of the gravedigger just after half-time when they led 9-3.• Women, it was traditionally said, were the gravediggers of dynasties.• The gravedigger was hurling earth into the pit.• Some cats outlasted him and I became their gravedigger - a new role thrust on me.

grave·dig·ger nounChineseSyllable  

is to Corpus graves job whose someone dig

gravedigger
grave‧dig‧ger /ˈɡreɪvˌdɪɡə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
someone whose job is to dig graves

grave·dig·gerBrE /ˈɡreɪvdɪɡə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈɡreɪvdɪɡər/ 🔊 nouna person whose job is to dig graves 掘墓人