Grave Synonyms & Definitions

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• GraveDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
  2. (superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.
  3. (n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  4. (n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  5. (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  6. (v. t.) 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.
  7. (superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
  8. (superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
  9. (n.) To entomb; to bury.
  10. (n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
  11. (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
  12. (superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
  13. (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

• GravellingDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (n.) A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).
  2. (n.) The act of covering with gravel.
  3. (n.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea.
  4. () of Gravel

• GravelDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
  2. (v. t.) To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.
  3. (n.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom.
  4. (v. t.) To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk.
  5. (n.) Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
  6. (v. t.) To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand.

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