"graverobbed" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} graverobbed (not comparable)
  1. (rare) Robbed from a grave. Tags: not-comparable, rare
    Sense id: en-graverobbed-en-adj-OL3SAIRx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1990, Gregory McNamee, The Return of Richard Nixon and Other Essays, Tucson, Ariz.: Harbinger House, →ISBN, page 128:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
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          "ref": "2008, Paul Stewart, Chris Riddell, Legion of the Dead (Barnaby Grimes), London: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 135:",
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