grave
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.
Inflected forms:
form: graves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graver
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gravest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had lain in the grave four days.
Let mee not be ashamed, O Lord, for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the graue.
They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
gloss: Any place of interment.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: Any place containing one or more corpses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Death, destruction.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
examples: […]Meeting is pleasure, parting is a grief; / An inconstant lover is worse than a thief; / A thief can but rob you, and take all you have, / An inconstant lover will bring you to the grave![…]
[…]balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave.
gloss: Deceased people; the dead.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
examples: "Hold your jaw, woman! I've had enough to vex me to-day without you startin' your tantrums. You're jealous of the grave. That's wot's the matter with you." "And her brats can insult me as they like - me that 'as cared for you these five years."
gloss: Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
pos: adj
examples: [Mercuti] Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
gloss: Low in pitch, tone etc.
pos: adj
examples: The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
gloss: Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
pos: adj
examples: Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.
Khrushchev made a grave miscalculation when he failed to appreciate the growing opposition to his power and overestimated the support of his bureaucracy.
gloss: Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Influential, important; authoritative.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.
Synonyms: grievous
Related words: groove
Derived words: begrave
beyond the grave
cold in one's grave
common grave
cradle-to-grave
dance on someone's grave
dig one's grave with a fork
dig one's grave with a fork and spoon
dig one's own grave
follow to the grave
cradle to grave
the cradle to the grave
gravebound
grave candle
graveclothes
gravedance
gravedancer
grave dancer
grave dancing
grave-dancy
gravedigger
grave digger
gravedigging
gravedom
graveful
grave good
grave-good
grave-goods
grave goods
gravekeeper
grave lantern
graveless
gravelike
grave marker
gravemound
grave-rob
graverobber
grave robber
grave-robbing
graverobbing
graveside
gravesite
gravesome
gravestead
gravestone
graveward
gravewards
grave wax
graveyard
have one foot in the grave
ingrave
mass grave
one foot in the grave
on foenem grave
passage grave
pauper's grave
quiet as a grave
quiet as the grave
roll in one's grave
roll over in one's grave
silent as a grave
silent as the grave
spin in one's grave
take someone to the grave
take something to one's grave
take something to the grave
take to the grave
turn in one's grave
turn over in one's grave
ungrave
war grave
watery grave
white man's grave
grave as a judge
graveness
ungravely
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