open grave

collocation in English

meaningsofopenandgrave

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open
adjective
uk
/ˈəʊ.pən/us
/ˈoʊ.pən/
not closed ...
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grave
noun[C]
uk
/ɡreɪv/us
/ɡreɪv/
a place in the ground where a dead person ...
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(Definition ofopenandgravefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofopen grave

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The manager and the workmen come to the funeral and for a few moments capital and labour have everything in common beside theopengrave.
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A body may have been buried in the bottom of anopengravein a cemetery somewhere, and a coffin placed on top of it the next day.
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I stood by hisopengrave.
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At the end of the video he is placed in anopengraveand viewed by a great deal of people, including two police officers.
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At the end of this period, he or she was led to anopengraveat the local cemetery.
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He attacks the assailants, knocking them out and leaving one in anopengrave.
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At a funeral, a cannon rises out of theopengraveand aims at the priest.
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Tasha gets free and runs into anopengrave.
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There were open graves everywhere, and in some cases coffins protruded from the ground.
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It is not unlikely that the idea of the dead eating themselves might have risen from bodies in open graves who had been partly eaten by scavengers like rats.
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