grave

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
2. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
3. Any place containing one or more corpses.
4. Death, destruction.
5. Deceased people; the dead.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To dig.
2. (obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
3. (obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
4. (obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
5. (obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
6. (obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Adj

1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
2. Low in pitch, tone etc.
3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
4. Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
5. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.

Verb

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.

Conceptos

tumba

grave

sepulcro

sepultura

fosa

serio

grabar

importante

cincelar

labrar

zanja

considerable

notable

formal

hoya

agujero

cementerio

terrible

esculpir

severo

solemne

adulto

mayor

mayor de edad

cortar

cortar al ras

fos

hoyo

tieso

mesurado

difícil

digno

pesado

peligroso

tremendo

inscribir

tallar

reservado

seco

sombrío

bajo

apremiante

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪv/

Etimología (Inglés)

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.