grave robber
noun
A person who steals valuable items or dead bodies from graves or tombs: this mausoleum has managed to evade grave robbers for hundreds of years...
- Elaborate burial goods included coins, weapons, and armor, which miraculously escaped grave robbers.
- Laurence Sterne's corpse was sold to a medical school by grave robbers.
- Grave robbers have stolen the remains of the former president of the Republic of Cyprus.
Derivatives
grave robbing
- Some states reacted to body snatchings by imposing prison sentences or heavy fines for grave robbing.
- It's part of the biggest suspected case of grave robbing of all time.
- Among criminal justice measures, there are now tougher penalties aimed at repeat drunken-driving offenders, as well as for grave robbing.