grave

Meaning

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.

Concepts

grave

tomb

serious

solemn

sepulchre

cemetery

weighty

mausoleum

important

earnest

sedate

severe

grievous

mound

critical

heavy

sepulcher

graveyard

vault

burial

stern

burial place

carve

pit

staid

dangerous

sober

major

majestic

terrible

dignified

alarming

bad

somber

significant

chisel

whittle

cut

authoritative

dreadful

sad

life-threatening

inscribe

scratch

sculpture

crypt

deep

death

big

momentous

bitter

appreciable

considerable

key

real

sizable

substantial

fossa

close

limping

narrow

uncertain

unreliable

watch out

austere

profound

wise

coffin

engrave

sculpt

grave accent

demure

high

difficult

great

large

tumulus

hole

tombstone

crucial

grim

awful

black

dark

dismal

heinous

respectful

adult

full-grown

grown-up

of age

chop

cut off

facet

hack

hew

slice

burial pit

meaningful

reliable

low-pitched

not light

interment

at risk

in danger

in jeopardy

impressive

mournful

pensive

sorrowful

exceedingly

frequently

sincerely

sobersided

crematorium

resting place

thoughtful

mature

free from intoxication

garden

planted forest

graceful

stately

bier

entombment

grim reaper

dig

excavate

bury

inter

impression

influential

respected

formidable

low

sepulchral

sepulture

not trifling

provocative

quiet

reserved

serious,

be sedate

be serious

be solemn

be staid

primary

principal

responsible

decent and dignified

burning

matronal

matronly

saturnine

incise

notch

score

scribe

low and deep

lowering

overcast

final resting place

European

den

ditch

white

calk

distressing

perturbing

troubling

unreassuring

worrisome

worrying

crying

fat

grand

wide

chase

chip at

cleave

flute

furrow

gauffer

goffer

gouge

gutter

indent

rabbet

rebate

Byzantine

arduous

awkward

challenging

sesquipedalian

tough

troublous

unfriendly

unpronounceable

unutterable

gross

no-nonsense

sombre

burial site

severity

diligent

onerous

end

urgent

gravestone

dire

world

Hades

strict

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹeɪv/

Etymology

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.