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词汇 gravedigger
释义 gravedigger
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈɡreɪv.dɪɡ.ər/ us /ˈɡreɪv.dɪɡ.ɚ/
a person whose job is to dig graves(= holes in the ground in which dead people can be buried)挖墓者,掘墓人
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Examples of gravedigger


gravedigger
The gravediggers sweep the bodies together in piles.
The gravediggers and the crematorium assistants were a dramatic case which hit the public pretty hard.
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When we get to the gravamen of the charge, could we also have the gravedigger?
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The gravediggers were refusing to bury the dead.
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I believe that a gravedigger's wage is something in the vicinity of £20 for a couple of hour's work or whatever it is.
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We had to keep our loved ones in our living rooms until the gravediggers went back off strike.
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He overcame that, but was then told that he could not receive a grant towards a gravedigger because the gravedigger did not work for the council.
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It certainly had several gravediggers.
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I think he will agree that cemeteries, for obvious reasons, are near built-up areas, and for that reason it is possible for gravediggers to avail themselves of existing catering facilities.
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I shall come to the important question of why the gravediggers of parliamentary democracy, many of whom we have heard from today, should not get their way.
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I remember one particularly sordid moment in 1979 when the gravediggers went on strike, and it was said at the time that there would be severe cases of panic dying.
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He worked as a granite cutter, headstone engraver, scrapyard worker, shampoo factory worker, and gravedigger.
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All were trampled into the ground by the footsteps of the gravediggers like rejected junk.
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If the gravediggers find this coffin, that money will be added to the pot.
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And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by its remembrance, then we become the gravediggers.
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