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grave robber
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grave robber
n.
One who plunders valuables from tombs or graves or who steals corpses after burial, as for illicit dissection.
Translations
grave robber nladro/a di tombe, tombarolo/a


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La Paz's Archbishop Edmundo Abastoflor warned many of the skulls in fact belonged to "unknown people, obtained by grave robbing and later conserved, donated or even sold.
24 editorial, "Artifact crackdown is call for caution": While no one is defending grave robbing or illegal digging of prehistoric artifacts in the West, your editorial overlooks important aspects of what is going on.
Bailey Jr, 43, faces grave robbing charges after cops found an ashes urn in his living-room.
 
 
 
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