grave

Anlam (İngilizce)

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.

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Etimoloji (İngilizce)

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.