Definitions for grave

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grave grave

Spelling: [greyv]

IPA: /greɪv/

Grave is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 63 anagrams from letters in grave (aegrv).

Definitions for grave

noun

1. an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body.
2. any place of interment; a tomb or sepulcher:
3. any place that becomes the receptacle of what is dead, lost, or past:
4. death:
5. the grave accent.

Idioms

1. have one foot in the grave, to be so frail, sick, or old that death appears imminent:
2. make (one) turn / turn over in one's grave, to do something to which a specified dead person would have objected bitterly:

adverb

1. slowly; solemnly.

adjective

1. serious or solemn; sober:
2. weighty, momentous, or important:
3. threatening a seriously bad outcome or involving serious issues; critical:
4. Grammar. unaccented. spoken on a low or falling pitch. noting or having a particular accent (`) indicating originally a comparatively low pitch (as in French père), distinct syllabic value (as in English belovèd), etc. (opposed to acute).
5. (of colors) dull; somber.
6. slow; solemn.

verb (used with object)

1. to carve, sculpt, or engrave.
2. to impress deeply:
3. to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).

Origin of grave

before 1000; Middle English; Old English græf; cognate with German Grab; see grave³

Examples for grave

See what grave reflections an innocent subject will produce!

“I read articles that say ‘here’s another white girl joining in on the dance party on the grave of hip hop,” she says.

That distant whirring sound you hear is a long-dead Greek physician spinning in his grave.

We are making light of a grave issue, and turning private pain into public entertainment.

A “komitetchik par excellence,” a man of “outstanding mediocrity,” and “the grave digger of the revolution.”

According to Beaton, the additional downturn in tourism will have grave consequences.

What way will I live and the girls with me, and I an old woman looking for the grave?

Excuse me, my dear friend, for these grave soliloquies, as I may call them.

Then he set to work and made himself a grave which was to endure for all time.

“I mean a man sad and grave as the monks of Beaulieu,” said the jester.