body snatcher

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   someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection

   Synonymsgraverobberghoul

   Broaderthief

Questions about body snatcher

What does body snatcher mean?

body snatcher means "someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection".

What is another word for body snatcher?

Close synonyms include graverobber, ghoul. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is body snatcher a common word?

body snatcher is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.