'Grave' definitions:
Definition of 'grave'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: grave, sedate, sober, solemn]
adjective
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" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]
adjective
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" [syn: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty]
noun
Death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
noun
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" [syn: grave, tomb]
noun
A mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: grave accent, grave]
verb
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" [syn: sculpt, sculpture, grave]
verb
Definition of 'Grave'
From: GCIDE
- Grave \Grave\, v. t. (Naut.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Grave'
From: GCIDE
- Grave \Grave\, a. [Compar. Graver (gr[=a]v"[~e]r); superl. Gravest.] [F., fr. L. gravis heavy; cf. It. & Sp. grave heavy, grave. See Grief.]
- 1. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- His shield grave and great. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Mus.) (a) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. [1913 Webster]
- The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). (b) Slow and solemn in movement. [1913 Webster]
- Grave accent. (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.
- Syn: Solemn; sober; serious; sage; staid; demure; thoughtful; sedate; weighty; momentous; important.
- Usage: Grave, Sober, Serious, Solemn. Sober supposes the absence of all exhilaration of spirits, and is opposed to gay or flighty; as, sober thought. Serious implies considerateness or reflection, and is opposed to jocose or sportive; as, serious and important concerns. Grave denotes a state of mind, appearance, etc., which results from the pressure of weighty interests, and is opposed to hilarity of feeling or vivacity of manner; as, a qrave remark; qrave attire. Solemn is applied to a case in which gravity is carried to its highest point; as, a solemn admonition; a solemn promise. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Grave'
From: GCIDE
- Grave \Grave\, v. i. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Grave'
From: GCIDE
- Grave \Grave\, n. [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. gr["o]f, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. [1913 Webster]
- He bad lain in the grave four days. --John xi. 17. [1913 Webster]
- Grave wax, adipocere. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Grave'
From: GCIDE
- Grave \Grave\, v. t. [imp. Graved (gr[=a]vd); p. p. Graven (gr[=a]v"'n) or Graved; p. pr. & vb. n. Graving.] [AS. grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. greva, D. graven, G. graben, OHG. & Goth. graban, Dan. grabe, Sw. gr[aum]fva, Icel. grafa, but prob. not to Gr. gra`fein to write, E. graphic. Cf. Grave, n., Grove, n.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- He hath graven and digged up a pit. --Ps. vii. 16 (Book of Common Prayer). [1913 Webster]
- 2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. --Ex. xxviii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. [1913 Webster]
- With gold men may the hearte grave. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. [1913 Webster]
- O! may they graven in thy heart remain. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Grave'
From: Easton
- Grave Among the ancient Hebrews graves were outside of cities in the open field (Luke 7:12; John 11:30). Kings (1 Kings 2:10) and prophets (1 Sam. 25:1) were generally buried within cities. Graves were generally grottoes or caves, natural or hewn out in rocks (Isa. 22:16; Matt. 27:60). There were family cemeteries (Gen. 47:29; 50:5; 2 Sam. 19:37). Public burial-places were assigned to the poor (Jer. 26:23; 2 Kings 23:6). Graves were usually closed with stones, which were whitewashed, to warn strangers against contact with them (Matt. 23:27), which caused ceremonial pollution (Num. 19:16).
- There were no graves in Jerusalem except those of the kings, and according to tradition that of the prophetess Huldah.
Synonyms of 'grave'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject,
- abominable,
- acute,
- afflictive,
- agonizing,
- annihilation,
- arch,
- aristocratic,
- arrant,
- assemble,
- atrocious,
- august,
- autolithograph,
- awe-inspiring,
- awful,
- bane,
- baritone,
- barrow,
- base,
- bass,
- be a printmaker,
- beehive tomb,
- beggarly,
- biological death,
- biting,
- black,
- blackish,
- bleak,
- bone house,
- book,
- boundary stone,
- box grave,
- brass,
- burial,
- burial chamber,
- burial mound,
- bust,
- cairn,
- calendar,
- carve,
- cast,
- catacomb,
- catacombs,
- catalog,
- cenotaph,
- cessation of life,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- character,
- charnel house,
- chase,
- check in,
- cheesy,
- chisel,
- chronicle,
- cist,
- cist grave,
- clinical death,
- column,
- comprehensive,
- consequential,
- considerable,
- contemptible,
- contralto,
- courtly,
- cramping,
- crease,
- cribble,
- critical,
- cromlech,
- cross,
- crosshatch,
- crossing the bar,
- crucial,
- cruel,
- crummy,
- crypt,
- cup,
- curtains,
- cut,
- cyclolith,
- dangerous,
- dark,
- dark-colored,
- darkish,
- darksome,
- deadly,
- death,
- death knell,
- debased,
- debt of nature,
- decease,
- decorous,
- deep,
- deep six,
- deep-echoing,
- deep-pitched,
- deep-toned,
- deepmouthed,
- degraded,
- demise,
- demure,
- departure,
- depraved,
- despicable,
- destructive,
- dignified,
- dire,
- dirty,
- disgusting,
- dismal,
- dissolution,
- distressing,
- docket,
- dokhma,
- dolmen,
- doom,
- dour,
- dreadful,
- drear,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- drive,
- dusk,
- dusky,
- dying,
- earnest,
- ebb of life,
- elevated,
- enchase,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- engrave,
- enroll,
- enscroll,
- enter,
- etch,
- eternal rest,
- excruciating,
- execrable,
- exhaustive,
- exit,
- expiration,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fell,
- file,
- fill out,
- final summons,
- finger of death,
- flagrant,
- footstone,
- formal,
- formidable,
- foul,
- found,
- frowning,
- full,
- fulsome,
- funebrial,
- funereal,
- furrow,
- gloomy,
- gnawing,
- going,
- going off,
- grand,
- gravestone,
- gray,
- great,
- grievous,
- grim,
- grim-faced,
- grim-visaged,
- griping,
- groove,
- gross,
- hammer,
- hand of death,
- hard,
- harrowing,
- harsh,
- hatch,
- headstone,
- heavy,
- heinous,
- hoarstone,
- hollow,
- horrible,
- house of death,
- hurtful,
- hurting,
- impanel,
- important,
- imposing,
- impress,
- imprint,
- incise,
- inculcate,
- index,
- infix,
- inscribe,
- inscription,
- insculpture,
- insert,
- inspiring,
- instill,
- intense,
- irresistible,
- jaws of death,
- jot down,
- killing,
- kingly,
- knell,
- last debt,
- last home,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- leaving life,
- line,
- list,
- lithograph,
- little,
- lofty,
- log,
- long home,
- long-faced,
- lordly,
- loss of life,
- low,
- low green tent,
- low house,
- low-down,
- low-pitched,
- lumpen,
- magisterial,
- main,
- majestic,
- major,
- make a memorandum,
- make a note,
- make an entry,
- make out,
- make prints,
- making an end,
- mangy,
- mark,
- mark down,
- marker,
- mastaba,
- matriculate,
- mausoleum,
- mean,
- measly,
- megalith,
- memento,
- memorial,
- memorial arch,
- memorial column,
- memorial statue,
- memorial stone,
- menhir,
- mighty,
- minute,
- miserable,
- model,
- moderate,
- mold,
- monolith,
- monstrance,
- monstrous,
- monument,
- mound,
- moving,
- mummy chamber,
- murderous,
- narrow house,
- necrology,
- nefarious,
- nigrescent,
- no-nonsense,
- noble,
- note,
- note down,
- obelisk,
- obituary,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- ossuarium,
- ossuary,
- painful,
- paltry,
- paroxysmal,
- parting,
- passage grave,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- perilous,
- perishing,
- petty,
- piercing,
- pillar,
- pit,
- pivotal,
- place upon record,
- plaque,
- plenary,
- poignant,
- poky,
- poll,
- ponderous,
- poor,
- portentous,
- post,
- post up,
- pound,
- powerful,
- pressing,
- princely,
- print,
- prize,
- pungent,
- put down,
- put in writing,
- put on paper,
- put on tape,
- pyramid,
- queenly,
- quietus,
- racking,
- rank,
- record,
- reduce to writing,
- regal,
- register,
- release,
- reliquary,
- remembrance,
- reptilian,
- rest,
- resting place,
- reward,
- ribbon,
- rostral column,
- royal,
- sad,
- saturnine,
- scabby,
- score,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- scrubby,
- scruffy,
- sculp,
- sculpt,
- sculpture,
- scummy,
- scurvy,
- sedate,
- sentence of death,
- sepulcher,
- sepulchral,
- sepulture,
- serious,
- set down,
- severe,
- shabby,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- shaft,
- shaft grave,
- sharp,
- shoddy,
- shooting,
- shrine,
- sleep,
- small,
- sober,
- sober-minded,
- sobersided,
- solder,
- solemn,
- somatic death,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- spasmatic,
- spasmic,
- spasmodic,
- squalid,
- stabbing,
- staid,
- stamp,
- stately,
- statuesque,
- stela,
- stinging,
- stipple,
- stone,
- stone-faced,
- straight-faced,
- strong,
- stupa,
- sublime,
- summons of death,
- swart,
- swarthy,
- tablet,
- tabulate,
- take down,
- tape,
- tape-record,
- temperate,
- terrible,
- testimonial,
- thoughtful,
- tomb,
- tombstone,
- tool,
- tope,
- tormenting,
- torturous,
- total,
- tower of silence,
- triste,
- trophy,
- tumulus,
- ugly,
- unmentionable,
- unsmiling,
- urgent,
- vault,
- venerable,
- videotape,
- vile,
- vital,
- weariful,
- wearisome,
- weary,
- weighty,
- weld,
- worthy,
- wretched,
- write,
- write down,
- write in,
- write out,
- write up