Find the word definition

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graveless

Graveless \Grave"less\, a. Without a grave; unburied.

Wiktionary
graveless

a. Without a grave; unburied.

Usage examples of "graveless".

He saw the graveless dead of River Cotras—who had been claimed by the river’s fury, who bad thrown themselves into its flood in futile search for oblivion, who had been flung into its depths to hide the fruits of murder—white scattered bones, and current-tossed skulls, and moss-crusted lairs for fishes and wriggling things.

Even allowing for some flexibility in the Pattern, I doubted whether any mythic hero could commence his principal tasks with blood-guilt, as we call it, on his hands: Odysseus and Aeneas, to name only two of Polyeidus's 'personages from the future,' would be obliged to retrace their steps laboriously in mid-career merely to bury a graveless shipmate lost by accident.