Word: graverobbing
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: grave
rob
bing
Definition: The practice of illegally removing corpses from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.
Morphemes:
Affix: grave
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
Affix: rob
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To steal from, especially using force or violence.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: rober
Language: fro
Decoded: rober
Meaning: to rob
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form uncountable nouns from verbs denoting the act of doing something, an action.