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    grave
    /ɡreɪv/

    adjective

    noun

    • 1. another term for grave accent

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  2. The meaning of GRAVE is an excavation for burial of a body; broadly : a burial place. How to use grave in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Grave.

  3. GRAVE definition: 1. a place in the ground where a dead person is buried: 2. seriously bad: 3. a place in the…. Learn more.

  4. A grave is the place where a body is buried. Usually, a grave is dug in the ground, and a stone with information about the deceased person marks its location. Grave is used as an adjective, too. It can describe something serious, or of great importance.

  5. GRAVE meaning: 1. a place in the ground where a dead person is buried: 2. seriously bad: 3. a place in the…. Learn more.

  6. grave indicates a weighty dignity, or the character, aspect, demeanor, speech, etc., of one conscious of heavy responsibilities or cares, or of threatening possibilities: The jury looked grave while studying the evidence. sober (from its original sense of freedom from intoxication, and hence temperate, staid, sedate) has come to indicate ...

  7. 1. Requiring serious thought; momentous: a grave decision in a time of crisis. 2. Fraught with danger or harm: a grave wound. 3. Dignified and somber in conduct or character: a grave procession. See Synonyms at serious. 4. Somber or dark in hue. 5. (also gräv) Linguistics. a. Written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres. b.

  8. GRAVE meaning: 1 : a hole in the ground for burying a dead body; 2 : used to talk about death

  9. Definitions of 'grave'. 1. A grave is a place where a dead person is buried. [...] 2. You can refer to someone's death as their grave or to death as the grave. [...] 3. A grave event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying.

  10. a place in the ground where a dead body is buried: She visits his grave every day. Fewer examples. an unmarked grave. They lowered the coffin into the grave. He laid flowers at her grave. The victims were buried in mass graves. The girl's body was found in a shallow grave.

  11. noun. an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body. any place of interment; a tomb or sepulcher: a watery grave. any place that becomes the receptacle of what is dead, lost, or past: the grave of unfulfilled ambitions. death: O grave, where is thy victory? grave. 2. [ greyv; grahv ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. adjective.