GRAVE-DIGGERS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Grave-diggers (Hamlet). "If the water come to the man ..." The legal case referred to by Shakespeare occurred in the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth's reign, called Hales v. Petit, stated at length in Notes and Queries, vol. viii. p. 123 (first series). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Historic Usage: GRAVE-DIGGERS

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers. (reference)
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Usage Frequency: GRAVE-DIGGERS

"GRAVE-DIGGERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GRAVE-DIGGERS" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Anagrams: GRAVE-DIGGERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-g-g-g-i-r-r-s-v"
	-3 letters: aggrieved, aggrieves, graveside.
	-4 letters: aggrieve, derivers, disagree, diverges, draggers, draggier, drearies, dreggier, greasier, grievers, raggeder, redrives, regrades, reraised, rerigged, saggered.
	-5 letters: adverse, advisee, adviser, arrived, arrives, averred, daggers, dearies, deriver, derives, derries, desirer, deviser, diggers, diverge, diverse, dragees, dragger, drivers, evaders, gaggers, girders, graders, gravers, gravies, greased, greaser, greaved, greaves, greiges, grieved, griever.
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