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- noun Plural form of
gravedigger .
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Examples
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In Shakespeare’s time, they were called gravediggers.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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In Shakespeare’s time, they were called gravediggers.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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He blamed the reports on "gravediggers" who were trying to stop the country's "irreversible" move towards transition.
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It's a resounding rejection of the "gravediggers" of unionism.
MRZine.org 2009
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This is why Marx referred to workers as the "gravediggers" of capitalism.
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This is why Marx referred to workers as the "gravediggers" of capitalism.
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It was currently reported at the time that the gravediggers were the cause of the shallow graves "as being desirous to have the infection spred that they might gaine by burieng." (
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Decomposing bodies that leaked blood must have frightened gravediggers in the past.
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Dart and sheriff's police uncovered a massive scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip in 2009, where three gravediggers and a cemetery manager allegedly dumped corpses into weeded areas and double-stacked others in existing graves in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots.
Cook County Sheriff Calls Mass Baby Burials 'Disturbing' The Huffington Post 2011
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Dart and sheriff's police uncovered a massive scandal at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip in 2009, where three gravediggers and a cemetery manager allegedly dumped corpses into weeded areas and double-stacked others in existing graves in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots.
Cook County Sheriff Calls Mass Baby Burials 'Disturbing' The Huffington Post 2011
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