Illegal Excavation

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noun a person who steals valuables or bodies from graves

  • The grave robber was arrested for desecrating the burial site.
  • I heard that the grave robber got caught red-handed by the police.
  • That grave robber is a real scumbag, stealing from the dead like that.
  • In literature, the character was portrayed as a metaphorical grave robber, stealing ideas from other writers.