gravebound

adj

gravebound

adj

Etymology From grave + -bound.

1

Headed 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:

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