grave:1
nounbefore 12th century{ds||1||}
- an excavation for burial of a body; broadly : a burial place
- death
- death
grave:2
adjective1539{ds||1|d|}
- meriting serious consideration : important
- likely to produce great harm or danger
- significantly serious : considerable, great
grave:3
noun1609
- a grave accent ` used to show that a vowel is pronounced with a fall of pitch (as in ancient Greek), that a vowel has a certain quality (such as è in French), that a final e is stressed and close and that a final o is stressed and low (as in Italian), that a syllable has a degree of stress between maximum and minimum (as in phonetic transcription), or that the e of the English ending -ed is to be pronounced (as in "this cursèd day")
grave:4
adverb or adjective1683
- slowly and solemnly —used as a direction in music
grave:5
verbbefore 12th century{ds||3||}
- to carve or cut (something, such as letters or figures) into a hard surface : engrave
- to carve or shape with a chisel : sculpture
- to impress or fix (a thought, a memory, etc.) deeply
grave:6
verb15th century
- to clean and pay with pitch
grave robber
noun
grave robber
\
- a person who digs up a buried body to steal the things that were buried with it
a watery grave
noun
a watery grave
\
- death by drowning
beyond the grave
idiom
beyond the grave
\
- after death
dig one's own grave
idiom
dig one's own grave
\
- to behave in a way that will cause one to lose or fail
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