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graverobbed

graverobbed adjective: robbed from a grave. Also the simple past and past participle of graverob.

Adjective

graverobbed (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Robbed from a grave.
    • This is, of course, the story of the scientist who created a monster from graverobbed parts.1983, Darrell Moore, “Reading a Model of Literary Analysis: from The Best, Worst, and Most Unusual: Horror Films”, in James L[ouis] Kinneavy, John E. Warriner, Elements of Writing, fourth course...
    • In the act, Scribners—now for all purposes defunct, swallowed up by a conglomerate takeover—did itself, Ernest Hemingway, and American literature a grave disservice, for the day will soon come when the distinction between Hemingway’s willingly published work and the inferior, graverobbed texts is...1990, Gregory McNamee, The Return of Richard Nixon and Other Essays, Tucson, Ariz.: Harbinger House, →ISBN, page 128

Also used as

graverobbed is also the simple past and past participle of graverob.

Examples of graverobbed in a sentence

  • Its body so humpbacked and soiled it could only be a replica of a living thing, a sewn-together collection of graverobbed limbs.2005, Andrew Pyper, The Wildfire Season, Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 290:
  • Could this be the graverobbed body of Firejaw O’Rourke?2008, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Legion of the Dead (Barnaby Grimes), London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 135:

Origin of graverobbed

From grave + robbed.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about graverobbed

What does graverobbed mean?
Graverobbed means robbed from a grave.
How do you use graverobbed in a sentence?
Its body so humpbacked and soiled it could only be a replica of a living thing, a sewn-together collection of graverobbed limbs.
What part of speech is graverobbed?
Graverobbed is an adjective.

Words near graverobbed in the dictionary

  1. graveolency
  2. graveolent
  3. graver
  4. graveries
  5. graverob
  6. graverobbed
  7. graverobber
  8. graverobbers
  9. graverobbing
  10. graverobbings
  11. graverobs

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