Graving Synonyms & Definitions

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• GravingDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Impression, as upon the mind or heart.
2. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grave
3. (n.) That which is graved or carved.
4. (n.) The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, esp. by incision or in intaglio.
5. (n.) The act of cleaning a ships bottom.

• 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.