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单词 bodysnatcher
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Definition of bodysnatcher in English:

bodysnatcher

nounˈbɒdɪˌsnatʃəˈbɑdiˌsnætʃər
historical
  • A person who illicitly disinterred corpses for dissection, for which there was no legal provision until 1832.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For Rebus it is another opportunity to dwell, as he does often, on the bodysnatchers Burke and Hare.
    • The famous bodysnatchers Burke and Hare were never charged with violation of sepulchre because they eventually resorted to murder as a way of finding bodies to sell.
    • There are displays dedicated to the notorious Edinburgh bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, and cannibal Sawney Bean.
    • The Daily Express headline ‘Scandal of the bodysnatchers’ was inappropriate because there were no bodysnatchers.
    • That is when they encounter the bodysnatcher.

Derivatives

  • bodysnatching

  • nounˈbɒdɪˌsnatʃɪŋˈbɑdiˌsnætʃɪŋ
    historical
    • However, after two years marked by ‘scandalous behavior, ‘he was forced to flee at night due to a ‘serious incident, ‘rumored to have involved bodysnatching from a local cemetery.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Resurrection Club repeated the split narrative trick, mixing up bodysnatching in 19th century Edinburgh with a satire on public relations and the Festival, but was not so well received.
      • But if American freedom of information legislation is now allowing some of the story belatedly to emerge, the whole truth about the extent of British-American bodysnatching is unlikely ever to become public knowledge.
      • We hired an expensive law firm to look up the law of bodysnatching.
      • There shouldn't be any displacement or bodysnatching, although he isn't morally opposed to those kinds of things happening.
 
 

Definition of bodysnatcher in US English:

bodysnatcher

nounˈbɑdiˌsnætʃərˈbädēˌsnaCHər
historical
  • A person who stole corpses from a graveyard for dissection, for which there was no legal provision until 1832.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For Rebus it is another opportunity to dwell, as he does often, on the bodysnatchers Burke and Hare.
    • There are displays dedicated to the notorious Edinburgh bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, and cannibal Sawney Bean.
    • The famous bodysnatchers Burke and Hare were never charged with violation of sepulchre because they eventually resorted to murder as a way of finding bodies to sell.
    • The Daily Express headline ‘Scandal of the bodysnatchers’ was inappropriate because there were no bodysnatchers.
    • That is when they encounter the bodysnatcher.
 
 
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