1. plural of gravedigger; people whose job is to dig graves in a cemetery or graveyard
2. things or people that cause the ruin or destruction of something
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The gravediggers prepared the cemetery plot for the funeral service.
• Several gravediggers worked through the morning to complete their tasks.
• The scandal became the gravediggers of his political career.
• In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the gravediggers provide comic relief in a somber scene.
• The gravediggers used shovels and pickaxes to break through the frozen ground.
• Corruption and mismanagement were the gravediggers of the company's success.