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Grave   /greɪv/   Listen
noun
Grave  n.  An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. "He bad lain in the grave four days."
Grave wax, adipocere.


adjective
Grave  adj.  (compar. graver; superl. gravest)  
1.
Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. (Obs.) "His shield grave and great."
2.
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. "Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors." "A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity."
3.
Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
4.
(Mus.)
(a)
Not acute or sharp; low; deep; said of sound; as, a grave note or key. "The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone."
(b)
Slow and solemn in movement.
Grave accent. (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.
Synonyms: Solemn; sober; serious; sage; staid; demure; thoughtful; sedate; weighty; momentous; important. 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.


verb
Grave  v. t.  (past graved; past part. graven; pres. part. graving)  (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.


Grave  v. t.  (past graved; past part. graven; pres. part. graving)  
1.
To dig. (Obs.) Chaucer. "He hath graven and digged up a pit."
2.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. "Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel."
3.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. "With gold men may the hearte grave."
4.
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. "O! may they graven in thy heart remain."
5.
To entomb; to bury. (Obs.) "Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground."


Grave  v. i.  (past graved; past part. graven; pres. part. graving)  To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.





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... company, under any shape; hoped they would make themselves quite at home, and take a glass with me in the friendly way. The friends shook their heads simultaneously, declining the offer; and he whom I had hitherto known as the right foot, said in a grave voice:— ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 7, 1841 • Various
... to Walpole, of the 28th of October, Madame du Deffand draws the following portrait of General Conway:— "Selon l'id'ee que vous m'en aviez donn'ee, je le croyais grave, s'ev'ere, froid, imposant; c'est l'homme le plus aimable, le plus facile, le plus doux, le plus obligeant, et le plus simple que je connaisse. Il n'a pas ces premiers mouvemens de sensibilit'e qu'on trouve en vous, mais ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole
... The whole committee had attended the obsequies of Crutch and acted as pall-bearers. Reybold had escorted the page's sister to the Congressional cemetery, and had observed even old Beau to come with a wreath of flowers and hobble to the grave and deposit them there. But the Judge, remorseless in death as frivolous in life, never came near his mourning wife and daughter in their severest sorrow. Mrs. Tryphonia Basil, seeing that this singular want of behavior on the Judge's ...
— Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2 • Various
... the longest afternoon Toby Hopkins ever knew during the entire course of his young life. He seemed to look up at the sun forty times, as though resting under a grave suspicion that some modern Joshua might have commanded it to "stand still." Steve began to notice his actions, and seemed puzzled to account for them, being wholly unsuspicious ...
— Jack Winters' Campmates • Mark Overton
... remark of Dean Stanley's comes back anew as though it were now only for the first time realised, where, in his funeral sermon of the 19th June, 1870, he said that it was the inculcation of the lesson derived from precisely such a scene as this which will always make the grave of Charles Dickens seem "as though it were the very grave of those little innocents whom he created for our companionship, for our instruction, for our delight and solace." The little workhouse-boy, the little orphan girl, the little cripple, who "not only blessed his father's needy ...
— Charles Dickens as a Reader • Charles Kent


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