Definition of -grave in English English dictionary
- A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave, burgrave
- accent grave
- A grave accent
- be as silent as the grave
- to say absolutely nothing (especially about a particular subject)
- cradle-to-grave
- Spanning an entire lifetime; from birth to death
Politics should be a cradle-to-grave calling: anything else is mere distraction.
- dig one's own grave
- To behave in a way that is likely to have future negative effects on oneself
- early grave
- (Can we clean up() this sense?) An execution or death sentence of someone who was under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. Early capital punishment
- early grave
- Death at a young age
- early grave
- (Can we clean up() this sense?) An act of sentencing of someone under the who was under the age of 18 at the time of the crime to death row. Early death row
- grave
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable
- grave
- To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave
This be the verse you grave for me / “Here he lies where he longs to be” — Stevenson, Requiem.
- grave
- To entomb; to bury. —Chaucer
Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. —Shakespeare.
- grave
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre
- grave
- To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving
- grave
- To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly
O! may they graven in thy heart remain. —Prior.
- grave
- A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent
- grave
- To dig. Chaucer
He hath graven and digged up a pit. —Ps. VII 16 (Book of Prayer).
- grave
- Low in pitch, tone etc
The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone. —Moore (Encyc. of Music).
- grave
- 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
- grave
- Influential, important; authoritative
An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.
- grave
- An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: death; destruction
They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
- grave
- To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image
With gold men may the hearte grave. —Chaucer.
- grave accent
- A diacritic mark ( ˋ ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels
- grave accents
- plural form of grave accent
- grave marker
- A tombstone or other permanent fixed object to indicate the location of a grave
- grave markers
- plural form of grave marker
- grave wax
- A waxy substance found on corpses; adipocere
- mass grave
- a grave containing many human corpses, either as the result of natural disaster or war
- take something to the grave
- To never reveal a secret to one's death
Houdini took his secrets to the grave, as he died shortly after performing one of his most famous escapes.
- turn in one's grave
- to be appalled, offended or disgusted by something, despite being deceased
Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony.
- turned in one's grave
- Simple past tense and past participle of turn in one's grave
- turning in one's grave
- Present participle of turn in one's grave
- turns in one's grave
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of turn in one's grave
- war grave
- A burial place, grave(s) for indidivual victim(s), soldiers and/or civilians, of warfare, including civil war
- war grave
- (usually in the plural: war graves) A cemetary reserved for such victims
- war grave
- Similar resting place of victims during warfare on board a sunk vessel or crashed aircraft
- white man's grave
- Africa, or more specifically, western Africa or Sierra Leone. By extension, any other land subject to Western colonialism or missionizing that is comparably deadly
Not only this, but it is also much higher than the death-rate of such insanitary places as Borne, Venice, Hamburg, and Munich, and actually falls not far short of the rate recorded in that white man's grave Calcutta.
- cradle-to-grave analysis
- Life-cycle assessment (LCA, also known as life-cycle analysis, ecobalance, and cradle-to-grave analysis) is a technique to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave
- grave sin
- A sin, such as murder or blasphemy, that is so heinous it deprives the soul of sanctifying grace and causes damnation if unpardoned at the time of death
- grave
- {n} a flat accent, a place for the dead
- turn in grave
- (deyim) Fig. to show enormous disfavor for something that has happened after one's death
1. If our late father heard you say that, he'd turn over in his grave.
2. Please don't change the place around too much when I'm dead. I do not wish to be rolling in my grave all the time.
- turn in one's grave
- (deyim) Fig. to show enormous disfavor for something that has happened after one's death
1. If our late father heard you say that, he'd turn over in his grave.
2. Please don't change the place around too much when I'm dead. I do not wish to be rolling in my grave all the time.
- turn over in one's grave
- (deyim) Fig. to show enormous disfavor for something that has happened after one's death
1. If our late father heard you say that, he'd turn over in his grave.
2. Please don't change the place around too much when I'm dead. I do not wish to be rolling in my grave all the time.
- Grave
- sombre
- Grave
- mome
- adjective grave 3
- a grave accent is a mark put above a letter in some languages such as French to show the pronunciation, for example è acute, circumflex circumflex
- be hardly cold in one's grave
- be dead for only a short time
- common grave
- mass grave, shared grave, burial site containing more than one body
- danced on his grave
- was happy that he had died
- desecrate a grave
- defile or damage a burial place
- desecrated grave
- defiled or damaged a burial place
- dug his own grave
- caused his own downfall, is responsible for his present condition
- enough to make him turn in his grave
- shocking, scandalous
- from the cradle to the grave
- from birth to death, in a lifetime
- grave
- A grave event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying. He said that the situation in his country is very grave I have grave doubts that the documents tell the whole story. + gravely grave·ly They had gravely impaired the credibility of the government
- grave
- To clean, as a vessels bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch - so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose
- grave
- To entomb; to bury
- grave
- To dig
- grave
- and pay it over with pitch; so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose
- grave
- as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc
- grave
- Slow, solemn
- grave
- Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc
- grave
- Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key
- grave
- An accent mark (`) placed above a character (as on à), originally indicating a falling tone It is used in languages such as Afrikaans, Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Wendic and transliterated Khmer and Yiddish (cf accents)
- grave
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup"
- grave
- {s} severe; serious, critical; somber, sober
- grave
- Slow, grave
- grave
- A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave
- grave
- Hence: Death; destruction
- grave
- {i} place where a person or thing is buried
- grave
- Of great weight; heavy; ponderous
- grave
- ] Chaucer
- grave
- If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their grave at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive. Darwin must be turning in his grave at the thought of what is being perpetrated in his name
- grave
- (from Italian, meaning 'heavy' or 'grave') Instruction to play a piece slowly and seriously
- grave
- A space in the ground in a cemetery for the burial of remains
- grave
- A grave is a place where a dead person is buried. They used to visit her grave twice a year
- grave
- n A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of
- grave
- Heavy, slow, pondereous in movement
- grave
- 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" death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave" of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence
- grave
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease"
- grave
- from the cradle to the grave: see cradle. To clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch
- grave
- An accent used in French, Italian and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent
- grave
- To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc
- grave
- [Obs
- grave
- To dig. (Obs.) Chaucer
- grave
- {f} engrave, inscribe; carve; sculpt
- grave
- You can refer to someone's death as their grave or to death as the grave. drinking yourself to an early grave Most men would rather go to the grave than own up to feelings of dependency
- grave
- 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"
- grave
- In some languages such as French, a grave accent is a symbol that is placed over a vowel in a word to show how the vowel is pronounced. For example, the word `mère' has a grave accent over the first `e'
- grave
- In poetry, a mark ( ` ) indicating that the e in the English ending ed is to be pronounced for the sake of meter
- grave
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
- grave
- 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"
- grave
- To entomb; to bury. (Obs.) -Chaucer
- grave
- Not acute or sharp; low; deep; said of sound; as, a grave note or key
- grave
- Solemn; very, very slow
- grave
- grave graves graver gravest Pronounced except for meaning 5., when it is pronounced
- grave
- Tempo marking meaning solemn (very, very slow) [Tempo Notation]
- grave
- death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
- grave
- Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc
- grave
- Slow and solemn in movement
- grave
- A grave person is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour. William was up on the roof for some time and when he came down he looked grave + gravely grave·ly `I think I've covered that business more than adequately,' he said gravely
- grave
- a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- grave
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence
- grave
- An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher
- grave
- Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face
- grave
- (fr ) - Slow (the slowest tempo in music) or deep in pitch [back]
- grave
- An excavation in the earth for the purpose of burying the deceased
- grave accent
- a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- grave concern
- serious worry, consternation
- grave danger
- serious danger, major peril
- grave digger
- {i} person whose job and occupation is to dig graves
- grave finding
- serious discovery, serious conclusion
- grave report
- serious report
- grave responsibility
- weighty burden or charge, serious obligation, important responsibility
- grave robber
- One who plunders valuables from tombs or graves or who steals corpses after burial, as for illicit dissection
- grave situation
- serious predicament, dangerous circumstances
- make someone turn in their grave
- do something that would shock a particular dead person if he was still alive
- mass grave
- large grave where a large number of bodies are buried
- one foot in the grave
- nearly dead, will die soon
- passage grave
- A Neolithic tomb consisting of a passageway and burial chamber made of large upright stones capped with other large stones, originally buried in an earthen mound
- sealed the grave
- covered the grave, filled in the burial site
- silent as the grave
- totally noiseless, having no sound at all
- sink into the grave
- die, pass away
- turned in his grave
- did not find rest even after death
- turning in his grave
- rolling over in his grave (of a dead person who would be shocked if he knew something)
- was in grave danger
- was in a very dangerous situation, his life was in jeopardy
- with one foot in the grave
- on one's way to death, dying, going to die, with one foot already in the next world; old