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# gravedigger

noun (a gravedigger, gravediggers)

«gravedigger» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person whose job is to dig graves in a cemetery for burying the dead. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#m1)
2. Someone or something that brings about the end of something (figurative). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories, history and churchyards; in adult life it is a real, respectful job. Phrases: the old gravedigger, the gravedigger's spade.

### Examples

- The gravedigger worked quietly in the churchyard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x1)
- Nowadays most gravediggers use small diggers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x2)
- In the story the gravedigger found a strange box. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x3)
- The gravedigger tidied the flowers after the funeral. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x4)
- Being a gravedigger is hard but important work. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x5)
- The village gravedigger also looked after the church garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x6)
- Deirdre kept sitting on the brink of the grave, constantly asking the gravediggers to dig the pit wide and free. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x7)

### Note

One word, sometimes written grave-digger. Plural gravediggers. Related: grave, cemetery, churchyard, funeral.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «gravedigger» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«gravedigger» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/gravedigger.html) on Mova free.