grave robber
Steals from tombs
A grave robber is someone who digs up buried corpses, typically to steal valuables interred with the dead or to sell the bodies themselves.
Historically, grave robbers supplied cadavers to medical schools when legal sources were scarce.
The term extends figuratively to anyone who profits from the dead or dying: insurance companies acting like grave robbers.
- ghoulUndead flesh-eating demon
- dead of nightDarkest part of evening
- lootingTheft during disorder
- desecratorOne who violates sanctity
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
crypt · mummy · graverobber · necromancer · plunderer · artifacts · Burke and Hare · antiquities · excavation · body snatcher · resurrection man · burial · cursed treasure · thief · sarcophagus · defiler · revenant · smuggler
- Plundererslooter, marauder, pillager, plunderer, raider
- thievesthief, burglar, pickpocket, shoplifter, cat burglar
grave robberundertaker
Funeral service professional
funeral director · mortician · gravedigger · cemetery caretaker · tomb guardian
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