different between graverobbing vs ghoulish

English

grave +? robbing

graverobbing (uncountable)

The practice of illegally removing corpses from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.

From ghoul +? -ish.

ghoulish (comparative more ghoulish, superlative most ghoulish)

Of or pertaining to ghouls.
Of or pertaining to corpses and graverobbing.
- 1922, H. P. Lovecraft, Herbert West: Reanimator
  We had that afternoon dug a grave in the cellar, and would have to fill it by dawn -- for although we had fixed a lock on the house, we wished to shun even the remotest risk of a ghoulish discovery.
Fascinated by corpses.

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