Examples of body snatcher in a Sentence
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Burke was an infamous body snatcher who, with William Hare, killed 16 people in 1828 and sold the corpses to a Scottish anatomist named Robert Knox, who used them for dissection during his lectures.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2020
There is a new performance every Friday for the coming weeks, including depictions of Cincinnati body snatcher, Mary Cunningham as well as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2020
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2020
There is a new performance every Friday for the coming weeks, including depictions of Cincinnati body snatcher, Mary Cunningham as well as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
—Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2020
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First Known Use
circa 1812, in the meaning defined above
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Medical Definition
body snatcher
noun
body snatch·er
-ˈsnach-ər 
: one especially in former times who illegally removed usually recently interred corpses from graves for medical dissection or for sale for this purpose
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