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Grave Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Grave?
[n] a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"
[n] a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [n] death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave" [adj] causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia" [adj] of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" [adj] dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence" [v] write upon; engrave a pen, for example [v] shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband" Synonyms | Synonyms for Grave: critical | dangerous | engrave | grave accent | grievous | heavy | important | inscribe | of import | sculpt | sculpture | sedate | serious | severe | sober | solemn | tomb | weighty Related Terms | Find terms related to Grave: abject | abominable | acute | afflictive | agonizing | annihilation | arch | aristocratic | arrant | assemble | atrocious | august | autolithograph | awe-inspiring | awful | bane | baritone | barrow | base | bass | be a printmaker | beehive tomb | beggarly | biological death | biting | black | blackish | bleak | bone house | book | boundary stone | box grave | brass | burial | burial chamber | burial mound | bust | cairn | calendar | carve | cast | catacomb | catacombs | catalog | cenotaph | cessation of life | chalk | chalk up | character | charnel house | chase | check in | cheesy | chisel | chronicle | cist | cist grave | clinical death | column | comprehensive | consequential | considerable | 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formal | formidable | foul | found | frowning | full | fulsome | funebrial | funereal | furrow | gloomy | gnawing | going | going off | grand | gravestone | gray | great | grievous | grim | grim-faced | grim-visaged | griping | groove | gross | hammer | hand of death | hard | harrowing | harsh | hatch | headstone | heavy | heinous | hoarstone | hollow | horrible | house of death | hurtful | hurting | impanel | important | imposing | impress | imprint | incise | inculcate | index | infix | inscribe | inscription | insculpture | insert | inspiring | instill | intense | irresistible | jaws of death | jot down | killing | kingly | knell | last debt | last home | last muster | last rest | last roundup | last sleep | leaving life | line | list | lithograph | little | lofty | log | long home | long-faced | lordly | loss of life | low | low green tent | low house | low-down | low-pitched | lumpen | magisterial | main | majestic | major | make a memorandum | make a note | make an entry | make out | make prints | making an end | mangy | mark | mark down | marker | mastaba | matriculate | mausoleum | mean | measly | megalith | memento | memorial | memorial arch | memorial column | memorial statue | memorial stone | menhir | mighty | minute | miserable | model | moderate | mold | monolith | monstrance | monstrous | monument | mound | moving | mummy chamber | murderous | narrow house | necrology | nefarious | nigrescent | noble | no-nonsense | note | note down | obelisk | obituary | obnoxious | odious | ossuarium | ossuary | painful | paltry | paroxysmal | parting | passage grave | passing | passing away | passing over | perilous | perishing | petty | piercing | pillar | pit | pivotal | place upon record | plaque | plenary | poignant | poky | poll | ponderous | poor | portentous | post | post up | pound | powerful | pressing | princely | print | prize | pungent | put down | put in writing | put on paper | put on tape | pyramid | queenly | quietus | racking | rank | record | reduce to writing | regal | register | release | reliquary | remembrance | reptilian | rest | resting place | reward | ribbon | rostral column | royal | sad | saturnine | scabby | score | scrape | scratch | scrubby | scruffy | sculp | sculpt | sculpture | scummy | scurvy | sedate | sentence of death | sepulcher | sepulchral | sepulture | serious | set down | severe | shabby | shades of death | shadow of death | shaft | shaft grave | sharp | shoddy | shooting | shrine | sleep | small | sober | sober-minded | sobersided | solder | solemn | somatic death | somber | sombrous | spasmatic | spasmic | spasmodic | squalid | stabbing | staid | stamp | stately | statuesque | stela | stinging | stipple | stone | stone-faced | straight-faced | strong | stupa | sublime | summons of death | swart | swarthy | tablet | tabulate | take down | tape | tape-record | temperate | terrible | testimonial | thoughtful | tomb | tombstone | tool | tope | tormenting | torturous | total | tower of silence | triste | trophy | tumulus | ugly | unmentionable | unsmiling | urgent | vault | venerable | videotape | vile | vital | weariful | wearisome | weary | weighty | weld | worthy | wretched | write | write down | write in | write out | write up See Also | accent | accent mark | burial chamber | carve | character | chip at | death | demise | dying | gravestone | headstone | mastaba | mastabah | place | sepulcher | sepulchre | sepulture | spot | tombstone | topographic point Grave In Webster's Dictionary \-grave\
A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave,
margrave. See {Margrave.}
\Grave\, v. t. (Naut.) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. \Grave\, a. [Compar. {Graver} (gr[=a]v"[~e]r); superl. {Gravest.}] [F., fr. L. gravis heavy; cf. It. & Sp. grave heavy, grave. See {Grief.}] 1. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. [Obs.] His shield grave and great. --Chapman. 2. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors. --Shak. A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity. --Milton. 3. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. 4. (Mus.) (a) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). (b) Slow and solemn in movement. {Grave accent}. (Pron.) See the Note under {Accent}, n., 2. Syn: Solemn; sober; serious; sage; staid; demure; thoughtful; sedate; weighty; momentous; important. Usage: {Grave}, {Sober}, {Serious}, {Solemn.} Sober supposes the absence of all exhilaration of spirits, and is opposed to gay or flighty; as, sober thought. Serious implies considerateness or reflection, and is opposed to jocose or sportive; as, serious and important concerns. Grave denotes a state of mind, appearance, etc., which results from the pressure of weighty interests, and is opposed to hilarity of feeling or vivacity of manner; as, a qrave remark; qrave attire. Solemn is applied to a case in which gravity is carried to its highest point; as, a solemn admonition; a solemn promise. \Grave\, v. t. [imp. {Graved} (gr[=a]vd); p. p. {Graven} (gr[=a]v"'n) or {Graved}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Graving}.] [AS. grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. greva, D. graven, G. graben, OHG. & Goth. graban, Dan. grabe, Sw. gr[aum]fva, Icel. grafa, but prob. not to Gr. gra`fein to write, E. graphic. Cf. {Grave}, n., {Grove}, n.] 1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. He hath graven and digged up a pit. --Ps. vii. 16 (Book of Common Prayer). 2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. --Ex. xxviii. 9. 3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. With gold men may the hearte grave. --Chaucer. 4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. O! may they graven in thy heart remain. --Prior. 5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. --Shak. \Grave\, v. i. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. \Grave\, n. [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. gr["o]f, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See {Grave} to carve.] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. He bad lain in the grave four days. --John xi. 17. {Grave wax}, adipocere. |
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