grave

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

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

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dig.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To entomb; to bury.
6. (intransitive, 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. (dated) 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 were formerly used for this purpose.

Oposto a

acute, deep, flat, low-pitched

Sinónimos

tomb

serious

solemn

sepulchre

cemetery

weighty

mausoleum

severe

important

sedate

earnest

grievous

mound

heavy

critical

‼️

vault

graveyard

sepulcher

burial

stern

burial place

carve

sober

dangerous

pit

staid

majestic

major

dignified

somber

bad

👎

alarming

terrible

whittle

authoritative

bitter

life-threatening

chisel

momentous

significant

big

inscribe

deep

scratch

sculpture

cut

crypt

sad

☹️

dreadful

death

💀

Traducións

tombe

Grab

🪦

tumba

🪦

graf

🪦

tombeau

grave

grave

tomba

sepultura

🪦

sepolcro

sepulcro

grave

🪦

τάφος

túmulo

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪv/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: grave

Herdado de Old English: græf

Relativo a frisón occidental: grêf

Relativo a neerlandés: graf

Relativo a baixo alemán: Graf

Relativo a alemán: Grab

Relativo a dinamarqués: -

Relativo a sueco: -

Relativo a noruegués: grav

Relativo a islandés: gröf

Relativo a Old French: greve

Herdado de Middle English: greyve

Relativo a neerlandés: -

Relativo a alemán: -

In summary

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.

Frases

I swear it on my mother's grave .