graverobbed

English

Adjective

graverobbed (not comparable)

1. (rare) Robbed from a grave.
   • 1983, Darrell Moore, “Reading a Model of Literary Analysis: from The Best, Worst, and Most Unusual: Horror Films”, in James L[ouis] Kinneavy, John E. Warriner, Elements of Writing, fourth course, Ausin, Tex.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, published 1993, →ISBN, page 364:

     This is, of course, the story of the scientist who created a monster from graverobbed parts.

   • 1990, Gregory McNamee, The Return of Richard Nixon and Other Essays, Tucson, Ariz.: Harbinger House, →ISBN, page 128:

     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.

   • 1997, Murray G. H. Pittock, Inventing and Resisting Britain: Cultural Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1685–1789, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 140:

     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.

   • 2005, Andrew Pyper, The Wildfire Season, Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 290:

     Its body so humpbacked and soiled it could only be a replica of a living thing, a sewn-together collection of graverobbed limbs.

   • 2008, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Legion of the Dead (Barnaby Grimes), London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 135:

     Could this be the graverobbed body of Firejaw O’Rourke?