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Defenition of the word grave

    • Defenition of the word grave

      • A place (commonly marked with a headstone) where one or more people are buried (usually in a coffin underneath the ground).
      • (Very) serious.
      • Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm.
      • 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"
      • write upon; engrave a pen, for example
      • death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
      • 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"
      • dignified and somber in manner or character; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "sober as a judge"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"
      • 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"
      • a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
      • shape (stone or wood, for example) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting an image of her husband"
      • 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"
      • carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner''s name onto the trophy cup"
      • shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband"
      • 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"; "a life-threatening disease"
      • 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"
      • a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
      • death of a person
      • carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
      • shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
      • causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
      • of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
      • dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

    Synonyms for the word grave

      • burial
      • burial chamber
      • burial place
      • critical
      • crucial
      • crypt
      • dangerous
      • death
      • dire
      • earnest
      • engrave
      • fateful
      • forbidding
      • foreboding
      • grave accent
      • grievous
      • grim
      • grim reaper
      • heavy
      • important
      • inscribe
      • mausoleum
      • momentous
      • ominous
      • sculpt
      • sculpture
      • sedate
      • sepulcher
      • sepulchre
      • serious
      • severe
      • sober
      • solemn
      • somber
      • thoughtful
      • tomb
      • unsmiling
      • vault
      • vital
      • weighty

    Similar words in the grave

      • critical
      • grave
      • grave's
      • graved
      • gravel
      • gravel's
      • graveled
      • graveling
      • gravelly
      • gravels
      • gravely
      • graven
      • graver
      • graves
      • graves's
      • gravest
      • gravestone
      • gravestone's
      • gravestones
      • graveyard
      • graveyard's
      • graveyards
      • important
      • of import
      • serious

    Meronymys for the word grave

      • gravestone
      • headstone
      • tombstone

    Hyponyms for the word grave

      • burial chamber
      • character
      • mastaba
      • mastabah
      • sepulcher
      • sepulchre
      • sepulture

    Hypernyms for the word grave

      • accent
      • accent mark
      • carve
      • chip at
      • cut up
      • death
      • demise
      • dying
      • place
      • spot
      • topographic point

    Idioms for the word grave

      • holy grave
      • dead men's graves
      • into the grave of hell
      • secret as the grave
      • to make a person turn in his grave
      • one foot in the grave
      • to dig the grave of

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