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  • noun Plural form of grave.
  • noun The sediment of melted tallow; greaves.

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Examples

  • Because of his prognosis, she felt too uncomfortable with the subject of burial to say the word graves.

    Rainwater Sandra Brown 2009

  • But respect for graves is not just a Muslim value.

    Kamran Pasha: Digging Up Muslim Graves Kamran Pasha 2010

  • But respect for graves is not just a Muslim value.

    Kamran Pasha: Digging Up Muslim Graves Kamran Pasha 2010

  • The ministry's ruling follows a decision in 2007 to transfer authority for exhumation of human remains from ancient graves from the Home Office to the Ministry of Justice.

    Burial law is threatening archaeological research, say experts Robin McKie 2010

  • But respect for graves is not just a Muslim value.

    Kamran Pasha: Digging Up Muslim Graves Kamran Pasha 2010

  • No. The Neanderthal man used tools, buried the dead in graves, took care of the elderly and blind by most indications.

    Why We Finally Stop Hunting 2008

  • It runs into obvious difficulties with gender assumptions especially since similar physical assemblages in Anglo-Saxon graves have now often proved to be deposited with a skeleton of the 'wrong' sex.

    Pictish female names Carla 2010

  • The landscape of divided fields and churches on low-lying hills is the battlefield of low-lying graves from the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), and the backdrop for much of early Flemish painting.

    GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 4. 2007

  • So much so that by the end, it becomes overwhelming to realize that millions of men in graves long since forgotten occupy these margins and will never have a biographer or a novelist tell their stories.

    July 2006 2006

  • So much so that by the end, it becomes overwhelming to realize that millions of men in graves long since forgotten occupy these margins and will never have a biographer or a novelist tell their stories.

    The Best of 2006 (x0.5): Book 2006

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