GRAVE
\ɡɹˈe͡ɪv], \ɡɹˈeɪv], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈeɪ_v]\
Definitions of GRAVE
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
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death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
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a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
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death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
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carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup"
By Princeton University
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Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
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Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
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Slow and solemn in movement.
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To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
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To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
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To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
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To entomb; to bury.
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To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
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An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
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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.
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Not acute or sharp; low; deep; - said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
By Oddity Software
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Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
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Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
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Slow and solemn in movement.
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To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
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To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
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To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
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To entomb; to bury.
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To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
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An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
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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.
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Not acute or sharp; low; deep; - said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
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Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; - said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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Serious; solemn; thoughtful; sedate; important.
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An excavation or hole in the earth for the reception of a dead body; place of burial.
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To shape or carve by cutting with a chisel; engrave.
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Gravely.
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Graveness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Gravely.
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Graveness.
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To carve or cut, on a hard substance: to engrave.
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To engrave:-pa.p. graved or graven.
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A pit graved or dug out, esp. one in which to bury the dead: any place of burial: (fig.) death: destruction.
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(fig.) Weighty: of importance: serious: not gay: sober: solemn: not acute: low.
By Daniel Lyons
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Gravely.
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Graveness.
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Important; serious; sober.
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An excavation in the earth for the burial of a dead body; the abode of the dead.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A pit for the dead; death.
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Graved or graven.
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Heavy; important; serious; not acute.
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To carve; engrave.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Robley Dunglison
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