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grave-robbing

grave-robbing is the present participle and gerund of grave-rob.

grave-robbing is the alternative form of graverobbing.

Meaning of grave-rob

Verb

grave-rob (third-person singular simple present grave-robs, present participle grave-robbing, simple past and past participle grave-robbed)

  1. (transitive) To steal (items) from a person's grave.
  2. (transitive) To steal from the grave of (a person).

Meaning of graverobbing

Noun

graverobbing (countable and uncountable, plural graverobbings)

  1. The practice of illegally removing corpses (or other items) from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.

Forms of grave-robbing

pluralgrave-robbings

Questions about grave-robbing

What is grave-robbing the present participle and gerund of?
Grave-robbing is the present participle and gerund of grave-rob.

Words near grave-robbing in the dictionary

  1. grave-dancy
  2. grave-good
  3. grave-goods
  4. grave-rob
  5. grave-robbed
  6. grave-robbing
  7. grave-robbings
  8. grave-robs
  9. grave-stone
  10. gravebound
  11. gravecloth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: grave-robbing (page history and authors); grave-rob (page history and authors); graverobbing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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