English Explanatory Dictionary

bodysnatching

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The illicit theft of cadavers, especially by exhuming them from graves, to sell to them to anatomists, surgeons, etc.

Word forms

bodysnatching

Etymology

From body + snatching.

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