Grave

[greɪv] or [ɡrev]

Definition

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) death of a person; 'he went to his grave without forgiving me'; 'from cradle to grave'.

(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' .

Typist: Patricia--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) 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.

(superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.

(superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.

(superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

(superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.

(superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.

(n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

(n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

(n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

(n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

(n.) To entomb; to bury.

(v. i.) 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.

Typist: Tabitha

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Engrave, imprint, infix, impress deeply.[2]. Carve, form by cutting.

n. Pit (for a dead body), sepulchre, tomb, ossuary, charnel-house, narrow house, long home.

a. [1]. Important, weighty, momentous, cogent, of great consequence.[2]. Sober, serious, sedate, thoughtful, demure, staid, solemn.[3]. Plain, not showy, not tawdry.[4]. (Music.) Deep, not acute, low in pitch.

Editor: Ned

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Sad, serious, momentous, weighty, pressing, sedate, demure, thoughtful, sober,sombre, solemn, important, aggravated, heavy, cogent

ANT:Joyous, merry, facetious, unimportant, ridiculous, trivial, light, frivolous,futile

Editor: Zeke

Definition

adj. of importance: serious: not gay or showy: sober: solemn; weighty: (mus.) not acute: low.—n. the grave accent or its sign (`).—adv. Grave′ly.—n. Grave′ness.

n. a count prefect a person holding office as in landgrave margrave burgrave &c.

v.t. to carve or cut on a hard substance: to engrave.—v.i. to engrave:—pa.p. graved or grāv′en.—n. a pit graved or dug out esp. one in which to bury the dead: any place of burial: the abode of the dead: (fig.) death: destruction.—n.pl. Grave′-clothes the clothes in which the dead are buried.—n. Grave′-dig′ger one who digs graves.—adj. Grave′less (Shak.) without a grave unburied.—ns. Grave′-mak′er (Shak.) a grave-digger; Grave′-stone a stone laid over or placed at the head of a grave as a memorial; Grave′yard a yard or enclosure used as a burial-ground.—With one foot in the grave on the very borders of death.

v.t. to smear with graves or greaves a mixture of tallow rosin &c. boiled together.—ns.pl. Graves Greaves tallow-drippings.

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