Gravedigger

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  • noun. One that digs graves.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A digger of graves.
  • noun. See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person employed to dig graves.
  • noun. A necrophore, or burying beetle.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a person who earns a living by digging graves
    • Word Usage
    "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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