grave
IPA: grˈeɪv
noun
- An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
- (by extension) Death, destruction.
- (by extension) Deceased people; the dead.
- A grave accent.
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
- (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
- (transitive, obsolete, nautical) 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.
adjective
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
- (phonology, dated, of a sound) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
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Examples of "grave" in Sentences
- The spirits left the grave.
- She was as silent as the grave.
- I take the grasses of the grave.
- His style is grave and sententious.
- The illness was grave and infectious.
- At the time the castle was in grave decay.
- At the time, the castle was in grave decay.
- Many of the graves are in disrepair and overgrown.
- Crowley randomly retained the grave accent in the transliteration.
- A grave purporting to be his grave is in the grounds of the priory.
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