grave

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Meaning

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.

tomb

burial place

chip at

troublous

burial site

grim reaper

in jeopardy

in danger

sobersided

low and deep

be serious

be solemn

not light

free from intoxication

unreassuring

final resting place

be sedate

be staid

not trifling

serious,

decent and dignified

burial pit

planted forest

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪv/

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.