Meaning of grave in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• An excavation in the earth as a place of burial

• Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.

• (by extension) Death, destruction.

verb

• To dig.

• To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

• To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.

  Example: to grave an image

• To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

• To entomb; to bury.

• To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

noun

• A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).

adjective

• Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.

• Low in pitch, tone etc.

• Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.

• Influential, important; authoritative.

noun

• A count, prefect, or person holding office.

verb

• 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.