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gravebound

gravebound adjective: headed for the grave or death.

Adjective

gravebound (not comparable)

  1. Headed for the grave or death.
    • Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems, page 137

Origin of gravebound

From grave + -bound.

Questions about gravebound

What does gravebound mean?
Gravebound means headed for the grave or death.
What part of speech is gravebound?
Gravebound is an adjective.

Words near gravebound in the dictionary

  1. grave-robbed
  2. grave-robbing
  3. grave-robbings
  4. grave-robs
  5. grave-stone
  6. gravebound
  7. gravecloth
  8. graveclothes
  9. gravecloths
  10. graved
  11. gravedance

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