grave

Plural: graves

Noun

death of a person
- "he went to his grave without forgiving me"
- "from cradle to 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"
a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Any place of interment.
Any place containing one or more corpses.
Death, destruction.
Deceased people; the dead.
A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
A count, prefect, or person holding office.
A kilogram.

Verb

Verb Forms: graved, graven, graving, graves

To engrave or carve a design or inscription.
shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- "engrave a pen"
- "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"
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.
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.
To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves were formerly used for this purpose.

Adjective Satellite

dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- "a grave God-fearing man"
causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- "a grave situation"
- "a grave illness"
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- "grave responsibilities"
- "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"

Adj

Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
Influential, important; authoritative.

Adjective

Very serious, solemn, or critical.

Examples

He wanted to grave his name into the Scrabble Hall of Fame after that win.
The situation became grave when his opponent played a bingo, leaving no high-value letters.
to grave an image

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

dangerous, engrave, grave accent, grievous, heavy, inscribe, life-threatening, scratch, sculpt, sculpture, sedate, serious, severe, sober, solemn, tomb, weighty, austere, big, central, consequential, critical, crucial, demure, earnest, epochful, essential, extraordinary, fatefraught, fateful, fatesome, grave, high on the totem pole, historic, important, innegligible, key, lack-laughter, life-or-death, lot#Noun, magisterial, masterful, meaningful, momentous, necessary, noted, noticeable, observable, oracular, outstanding, paramount, pertinent, plot#Noun, relevant, remarkable, sad, sage, salient, saturnine, significant, solemncholy, somber, sombre, staid, sterling, stern, sweer, thoughtful, unignorable, valuable, vital, weightsome

Antonyms

acute, deep, flat, low-pitched

Scrabble Score: 9

grave: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
grave: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grave: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

grave: valid Words With Friends Word