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Grave

noun

1.

Death of a person. "From cradle to grave"

2.

A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone). Synonym: tomb.

3.

A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation. Synonym: grave accent.

adjective

(compar. graver; superl. gravest)

1.

Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises. Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn. "A quiet sedate nature" , "As sober as a judge" , "A solemn promise" , "The judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

2.

Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe. "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"

3.

Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought. Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty. "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"

verb

(past graved; past part. graven; pres. part. graving)

1.

Shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it. Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture.

2.

Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface. Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch. "Engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's" , "The lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"

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... shot, in great numbers, had entered her hull and were sticking to her sides. How the officers and crew escaped unhurt is almost impossible to conceive. The poor captain was immediately taken on shore, but only survived his wound a few days. He had a public funeral, and was followed to the grave by all the Americans in Gibraltar, and very many of the officers of the garrison and inhabitants ...

— American Merchant Ships and Sailors • Willis J. Abbot

... must begin by admitting that ... Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish constable, as in America with its boundless soil, every man being able to find work and recompense for himself, democracy may subsist; not elsewhere." Amid the grave misgivings of the first generation of statesmen, America was committed to the great adventure, in the populous towns of the East as well as in the forests and fields of ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... teacher. I have at times entered schools as a visitor when the mistress has immediately made the children show off by singing in succession a dozen pieces, as if they were a musical box. Thus to sing without bounds is a very likely way to bring the mistress to an early grave, and injure the lungs of the dear little children. Use as not abusing is the proper rule, tar all the new modes of teaching and amusing children that I have introduced; but it has often appeared to me that abuse it as much as possible was the rule acted upon. Call upon the ...

— The Infant System - For Developing the Intellectual and Moral Powers of all Children, - from One to Seven years of Age • Samuel Wilderspin

... in such an occasion. What may be the perfect grammar of Mr. Clarke, it cannot establish any sort of equality between you and I. then I will trust with my heart alone to supply the deficiency. let us speak upon a grave subject: do I see you that morning? What news from Captain phillip? when do you come spend a large week in that house? every question requires an exact answer; a good, also. my happiness depends on it, and I have ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay

... since I saw you. Is this scorn? Delilah can scarcely believe that. Does it not rather result from the tyranny of a woman whom, as you told me, you can no longer love? Wenceslas, you are too great an artist to submit to such dominion. Home is the grave of glory.—Consider now, are you the Wenceslas of the Rue du Doyenne? You missed fire with my father's statue; but in you the lover is greater than the artist, and you have had better luck with his daughter. You are a ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

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