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grave

English

  1. 🔊 of great gravity or crucial import
    “grave responsibilities”
  2. 🔊 dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
    “a grave God-fearing man”
  3. 🔊 causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
    “a dangerous operation”
  4. 🔊 a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
    “he put flowers on his mother's grave”
  5. 🔊 death of a person
    “he went to his grave without forgiving me”
  6. 🔊 a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
  7. 🔊 carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
    “engrave a pen”
  8. 🔊 shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
    “She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 fosa grave
  2. 🔊 hoya grave
  3. 🔊 huesa grave
  4. 🔊 siete pies de tierra grave
  5. 🔊 sepulcro grave, tomb
  6. 🔊 tumba grave, tomb

Similar words

tomb grave accent scratch engrave inscribe sculpt sculpture dangerous grievous serious severe life-threatening grievous heavy weighty sedate sober solemn abject abominable acute afflictive agonizing annihilation