Sekirov Dictionary

grave

/ɡɹeɪv/

noun8

  1. a hole made in the earth to put a dead body in
  2. Any place of interment.
  3. Any place containing one or more corpses.
  4. Death, destruction.
  5. Deceased people; the dead.
  6. A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
  7. (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
  8. (no longer used) A kilogram.

verb7

  1. (no longer used) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  2. (no longer used) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  3. (no longer used) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  4. (no longer used) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
  5. (no longer used) To dig.
  6. (no longer used) To entomb; to bury.
  7. (no longer used) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves were formerly used for this purpose.

adjective5

  1. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
  2. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness.
  3. Low in pitch, tone etc.
  4. (old-fashioned) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
  5. (no longer used) Influential, important; authoritative.
forms

graved · graven · graving · graves · graveth · gravest · graver · gravest

Phrases with grave

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