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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
  2. n. A place of burial.
  3. n. Death or extinction: faced the grave with calm resignation.
  4. adj. Requiring serious thought; momentous: a grave decision in a time of crisis.
  5. adj. Fraught with danger or harm: a grave wound.
  6. adj. Dignified and somber in conduct or character: a grave procession. See Synonyms at serious.
  7. adj. Somber or dark in hue.
  8. adj. Linguistics Written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres.
  9. adj. Linguistics Of or referring to a phonetic feature that distinguishes sounds produced at the periphery of the vocal tract, as in labial and velar consonants and back vowels.
  10. n. Linguistics A mark ( ` ) indicating a pronounced e for the sake of meter in the usually nonsyllabic ending -ed in English poetry.
  11. v. To sculpt or carve; engrave.
  12. v. To stamp or impress deeply; fix permanently.
  13. v. To clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch.
  14. adv. Music In a slow and solemn manner. Used chiefly as a direction.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To dig; delve.
  2. . To bury; entomb.
  3. To cut or incise, as letters or figures, on stone or other hard substance with an edged or pointed tool; engrave.
  4. To carve; sculpture; form or shape by cutting with a tool: as, to grave an image.
  5. . To make an impression upon; impress deeply.
  6. n. An excavation in the earth, now especially one in which a dead body is or is to be buried: a place for the interment of a corpse; hence, a tomb; a sepulcher.
  7. n. Figuratively, any scene or occasion of utter loss, extinction, or disappearance: as, speculation is the grave of many fortunes.
  8. n. Sometimes, in the authorized version of the Old Testament, the abode of the dead; Hades. In the revised version the original Hebrew word Sheol is substituted in some places; in others the old rendering is retained, with Sheol in the margin; and in Ezek. xxxi. 15 hell is used instead of the grave. See hell.
  9. . Having weight; heavy; ponderous.
  10. Solemn; sober; serious: opposed to light or jovial: as, a man of a grave deportment.
  11. Plain; not gay or showy: as, grave colors.
  12. Important; momentous; weighty; having serious import.
  13. In acoustics, deep; low in pitch: opposed to acute.
  14. n. The grave accent; also, the sign of the grave accent (`).
  15. In music, to render grave, as a note or tone.
  16. To clean (a ship's bottom) by burning or scraping off seaweeds, barnacles, etc., and paying it over with pitch.
  17. n. A count; a prefect: in Germany and the Low Countries— formerly, a person holding some executive or judicial office: usually in composition with a distinctive term, as landgrave, margrave (*mark-grave), burgrave (*burg-grave), dike-grave, etc.; now merely a title of rank or honor.
  18. In music, slow; solemn: noting passages to be so rendered.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
  2. n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
  3. n. death, destruction.
  4. v. transitive, obsolete To dig.
  5. v. transitive, obsolete To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  6. v. transitive, obsolete To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
  7. v. transitive, obsolete To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  8. v. transitive, obsolete To entomb; to bury.
  9. v. transitive, obsolete, nautical 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.
  10. v. intransitive, obsolete To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. (Naut.) 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.
  2. adj. obsolete Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
  3. adj. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.
  4. adj. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain.
  5. adj. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound.
  6. adj. Slow and solemn in movement.
  7. v. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  8. v. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  9. v. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
  10. v. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  11. v. obsolete To entomb; to bury.
  12. v. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  13. n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
  2. adj. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
  3. adj. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
  4. n. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
  5. n. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
  6. n. death of a person
  7. adj. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
  8. v. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan ("to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel"), from Proto-Germanic *grabanan (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven ("to dig"), German graben ("to dig"), Swedish gräva ("to dig"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English græf; see ghrebh-2 in Indo-European roots.French, from Old French, from Latin gravis; see gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots.Middle English graven, from Old English grafan; see ghrebh-2 in Indo-European roots.Middle English graven.Italian, from Latin gravis, heavy; see grave2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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