grave

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

   a grave God-fearing man

2. 2
   noun

   a place for the burial of a corpse,especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone

   They put flowers on their mother's grave.

3. 3
   noun

   death of a person

   They went to their grave unexpectedly.

4. 4
   verb

   carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

   engrave a pen

5. 5
   noun

   An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

   He had lain in the grave four days.

6. 6
   noun

   Death, destruction.

   […]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![…]

7. 7
   noun

   Deceased people; the dead.

   "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."

8. 8
   verb

   To dig.

   He hath graven and digged up a pit.

Etymology

From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.