单词 | gravedigger |
释义 | gravedigger From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Death Occupationsgravediggergrave‧dig‧ger /ˈɡreɪvˌdɪɡə $ -ər/ noun [countable]BOMXsomeone whose job is to dig gravesExamples from the Corpusgravedigger• Also patron of amputees, basketweavers, gravediggers, and hermits; he is invoked against eczema.• Hard-pressed gravediggers are burying as many as 100 people a day.• The width had been correctly judged on this occasion; but the gravediggers had skimped on the length.• They had heard ominous sounds of the gravedigger just after half-time when they led 9-3.• Women, it was traditionally said, were the gravediggers of dynasties.• The gravedigger was hurling earth into the pit.• Some cats outlasted him and I became their gravedigger - a new role thrust on me. |
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