What does graverobbed mean?
Graverobbed means (rare) Robbed from a grave..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(rare) Robbed from a grave..
This is, of course, the story of the scientist who created a monster from graverobbed parts.
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 blurred.
Robert Knox, the medical academic who, as keeper of the Anatomy Museum at Edinburgh from 1825, was the receiver of Burke and Hare’s graverobbed and later murdered goods, symbolized the dark world of a science prepared to progress at all costs.
Its body so humpbacked and soiled it could only be a replica of a living thing, a sewn-together collection of graverobbed limbs.
Could this be the graverobbed body of Firejaw O’Rourke?
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Graverobbed means (rare) Robbed from a grave..
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This is, of course, the story of the scientist who created a monster from graverobbed parts.
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