Australian English Meaning of grave
grave
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Definitions and Meaning of grave in English
grave (n)
death of a person
a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
grave (v)
shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
grave (s)
dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
grave (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.
grave (superl.)
Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
Slow and solemn in movement.
grave (n.)
To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
To entomb; to bury.
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
grave (v. i.)
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
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grave
death of a person, a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone), a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pro
burial,cemetery,tomb,Churchyard,graveyard,grave,sepulchre,burial ground,catacomb,charnel
birth,existence,life,creation,birth,rise,Genesis,origination
gravamina => grievances, gravamens => complaints, gravamen => gravamen, grauwacke => Grauwacke, graunt => grant,
