grave

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

graf

groeve

ernstig

beitelen

erg

aanmerkelijk

aanzienlijk

belangrijk

geruim

voornaam

zwaar

zwaarwichtig

serieus

bedenkelijk

kuil

plechtig

tombe

meerderjarig

mondig

afhakken

afhouwen

afkappen

hakken

houwen

kappen

omhakken

slijpen

snerpen

snijden

uitknippen

stemmig

zorgwekkend

zorgbarend

angstig

bang

deftig

diep

donker

somber

graftombe

Grave

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪv/

Etymologie (Engels)

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.