Definition of "grave"

grave¹

/ɡɹeɪv/

noun
plural graves
1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
  Quotations
  He had lain in the grave four days.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], John 11:17
  Let mee not be ashamed, O Lord, for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the graue.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Psalms 31:17
  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.
  1856, Gustave Flaubert, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter X
2. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
3. (by extension) Death, destruction.
  Quotations
  […] Meeting is pleasure, parting is a grief; / An inconstant lover is worse than a thief; / A thief can but rob you, and take all you have, / An inconstant lover will bring you to the grave! […]
  a. 1769, unknown, The Cuckoo‎, lines 9–12
  […] balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave.
  1973, “Breathe”, in Roger Waters (lyrics), David Gilmour and Richard Wright (music), The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd
4. (by extension) Deceased people; the dead.
  Quotations
  "Hold your jaw, woman! I've had enough to vex me to-day without you startin' your tantrums. You're jealous of the grave. That's wot's the matter with you." "And her brats can insult me as they like - me that 'as cared for you these five years."
  1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

grave²

/ɡɹeɪv/

verb
third-person singular simple present graves, present participle graving, simple past graved, past participle graved or graven
1. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
  Quotations
  He hath graven and digged up a pit.
  1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], vij:]
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  Quotations
  Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Exodus 28:9
  Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks.
  1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009
  This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
  a. 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Requiem"
  'It may be so,' I answered; 'but if the loved one prove a broken reed to pierce us, or if the love be loved in vain - what then? Shall a man grave his sorrows upon a stone when he hath but need to write them on the water?'
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
3. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
  Quotations
  With gold, men may the herte grave.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book IV, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542,
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  Quotations
  O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
  1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], (please specify the page)
5. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
  Quotations
  […] And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
  1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

grave³

/ɡɹeɪv/

adjective
comparative graver, superlative gravest
1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
  Quotations
  [Mercuti] Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
  c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
2. Low in pitch, tone etc.
  Quotations
  The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
  1854, John Weeks Moore, Encyclopedia of Music
3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
  Quotations
  Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.
  2016 February 6, James Zogby, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National‎
  Khrushchev made a grave miscalculation when he failed to appreciate the growing opposition to his power and overestimated the support of his bureaucracy.
  2017, Vladimir Shlapentokh, A Normal Totalitarian Society, page 80
4. (phonology, dated, of a sound) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
5. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
  Quotations
  An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 3, member 7
noun
plural graves
1. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).

grave⁴

/ɡɹeɪv/

noun
plural graves
1. (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.

grave⁵

/ɡɹeɪv/

verb
third-person singular simple present graves, present participle graving, simple past and past participle graved
1. (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.

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