gravedigger

[greyv-dig-er]

noun

1. a person whose occupation is digging graves.

2. burying beetle.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gravedigger¹

First recorded in 1585–95; grave ¹ + digger

Example Sentences

And in the following month, when asked about the mounting death toll, he replied simply: "I'm not a gravedigger" - a remark he later admitted regretting.

From BBC

As for myself, I propose to fight this gravedigger’s menace to the finish.

From Salon

One person undoubtedly cheering on the troops is Abidin Durma, well-known as the gravedigger of Omdurman, a sister city to Khartoum over the River Nile that is part of the capital region.

From BBC

I said good-bye to the widow’s unmarked stone, where she was buried after she died, and where I stayed until the gravediggers found me and carried me to the temple.

From Literature

The gravediggers marking out the individual spaces where exhumed corpses will be buried.

From BBC