ghoul
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- noun
- /ɡuːl/
- NSFW
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traficante de cadáveres
- They have impaled the dead ghouls on a rusted iron gate in front of the mausoleum.
Examples
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He was a ghoul, a necromaniac, a defiler of the dead, but he had not yet turned his sickness on a living victim.
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Alice is a Victorian ghoul.
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A body snatcher will steal the dead, but a ghoul will steal just about anything, dead or other.
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The ghoul dug up graves to sell the bodies for scientific research.
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In the old city, stories of a ghoul who sold corpses for dissection circulated among the locals.
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He worked as a ghoul, exhuming bodies to provide them for medical schools.
Synonyms
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A person who steals dead bodies from graves to sell to medical schools for study
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A person who takes bodies or valuable things from graves without permission to sell
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A person who illegally digs up dead bodies to sell to doctors for study
A person who steals dead bodies from graves to sell them to doctors
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Etymology
Ghoul comes from the Arabic word ghul, which means 'demon' that takes the dead, and in old times people who dug up or sold bodies were called ghouls because they 'took' corpses like the demon in the stories.