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# gravedigger

«gravedigger» in Mova's school dictionary: **to dig graves in a cemetery for burying the dead** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a gravedigger, gravediggers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is to dig graves in a cemetery for burying the dead. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x1)
- Nowadays most gravediggers use small diggers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x2)
- In the story the gravedigger found a strange box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x3)
- The gravedigger tidied the flowers after the funeral. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x4)
- Being a gravedigger is hard but important work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/#x5)
- The village gravedigger also looked after the church garden. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gravedigger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gravedigger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.