gravebound

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adjective

Headed for the grave or death.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectivegravebound (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHeaded for the grave or death.

    Half the populace are idle, / Half are busy in a room; / All are gravebound from the cradle, / All are hotfoot for their doom.

    1938, Elwyn Brooks White, The Fox of Peapack, and Other Poems, page 137

Origin

From grave + -bound.

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Cite this entry
APA

gravebound. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gravebound

MLA

“gravebound.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gravebound. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gravebound,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gravebound.

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