Grave

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
  • n. A place of burial.
  • n. Death or extinction: faced the grave with calm resignation.
  • adj. Requiring serious thought; momentous: a grave decision in a time of crisis.
  • adj. Fraught with danger or harm: a grave wound.
  • adj. Dignified and somber in conduct or character: a grave procession. See Synonyms at serious.
  • adj. Somber or dark in hue.
  • adj. Linguistics Written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres.
  • adj. Linguistics Of or referring to a phonetic feature that distinguishes sounds produced at the periphery of the vocal tract, as in labial and velar consonants and back vowels.
  • n. Linguistics A mark ( ` ) indicating a pronounced e for the sake of meter in the usually nonsyllabic ending -ed in English poetry.
  • v. To sculpt or carve; engrave.
  • v. To stamp or impress deeply; fix permanently.
  • v. To clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch.
  • ad. Music In a slow and solemn manner. Used chiefly as a direction.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
  • n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
  • n. death, destruction.
  • v. To dig.
  • v. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  • v. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
  • v. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  • v. To entomb; to bury.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • adj. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
  • adj. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.
  • adj. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain.
  • adj.
  • adj. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound.
  • adj. Slow and solemn in movement.
  • v. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  • v. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  • v. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
  • v. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  • v. To entomb; to bury.
  • verb-intransitive. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  • n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To dig; delve.
  • . To bury; entomb.
  • To cut or incise, as letters or figures, on stone or other hard substance with an edged or pointed tool; engrave.
  • To carve; sculpture; form or shape by cutting with a tool: as, to grave an image.
  • . To make an impression upon; impress deeply.
  • n. An excavation in the earth, now especially one in which a dead body is or is to be buried: a place for the interment of a corpse; hence, a tomb; a sepulcher.
  • n. Figuratively, any scene or occasion of utter loss, extinction, or disappearance: as, speculation is the grave of many fortunes.
  • n. Sometimes, in the authorized version of the Old Testament, the abode of the dead; Hades.
  • . Having weight; heavy; ponderous.
  • Solemn; sober; serious: opposed to light or jovial: as, a man of a grave deportment.
  • Plain; not gay or showy: as, grave colors.
  • Important; momentous; weighty; having serious import.
  • In acoustics, deep; low in pitch: opposed to acute.
  • n. The grave accent; also, the sign of the grave accent (`).
  • In music, to render grave, as a note or tone.
  • To clean (a ship's bottom) by burning or scraping off seaweeds, barnacles, etc., and paying it over with pitch.
  • n. A count; a prefect: in Germany and the Low Countries— formerly, a person holding some executive or judicial office: usually in composition with a distinctive term, as landgrave, margrave (*mark-grave), burgrave (*burg-grave), dike-grave, etc.; now merely a title of rank or honor.
  • In music, slow; solemn: noting passages to be so rendered.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
  • adj. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
  • adj. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
  • n. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
  • n. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
  • n. death of a person
  • adj. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
  • v. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
  • Equivalent
    important    of import    serious    critical   
    Verb Form
    graved    graven    graves    graving    grove   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    accent mark    accent    death    demise    dying    carve   
    Variant
    graven   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    demure    sage    weighty    solemn    momentous    important    sober    staid    sedate    thoughtful   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dave    Wave    aftershave    behave    brave    cave    concave    crave    deprave    engrave   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    serious    quiet    strange    profound    severe    deep