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grave

noun
/ɡɹeɪv/

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.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to dig, scratch, scrape”
  2. inherited from *grabą✻
  3. inherited from *grab✻
  4. inherited from græf
  5. inherited from grave

Definitions

  1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

    • He had lain in the grave four days.
    • Let mee not be ashamed, O Lord, for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the graue.

  2. Any place of interment.

  3. Any place containing one or more corpses.

  4. ›+ 18 more definitions

    1. 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![…]
      • […]balanced on the biggest wave you race towards an early grave.

    2. Deceased people

      Deceased people; the dead.

    3. To dig.

      • He hath graven and digged up a pit.

    4. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance

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

      • Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
      • Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks.
      • a. 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, "Requiem" This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"

    5. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel

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

      • to grave an image

    6. To impress deeply (on the mind)

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

      • O! may they graven in thy heart remain.

    7. To entomb

      To entomb; to bury.

      • […]And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.

    8. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines

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

    9. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness

      Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.

      • [Mercuti] Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

    10. Low in pitch, tone etc.

      • The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.

    11. Serious, in a negative sense

      Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.

      • Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.
      • Khrushchev made a grave miscalculation when he failed to appreciate the growing opposition to his power and overestimated the support of his bureaucracy.

    12. Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on…

      Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )

    13. Influential, important

      Influential, important; authoritative.

      • An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.

    14. A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.

    15. A count, prefect, or person holding office.

    16. To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch —…

      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.

    17. A kilogram.

      • At the origin of the metric system the new unit of weight was called the grave, and was equivalent to the kilogram. The denomination grave would in some respects have been preferable to kilogram.

    18. A surname.

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Derived

begrave, beyond the grave, cold in one's grave, common grave, cradle-to-grave, dance on someone's grave, dig one's grave with a fork, dig one's grave with a fork and spoon, dig one's own grave, follow to the grave, cradle to grave, the cradle to the grave, gravebound, grave candle, graveclothes, gravedance, gravedancer, grave dancer, grave dancing, grave-dancy, gravedigger, grave digger, gravedigging, gravedom, graveful, grave good, grave-good, grave-goods, grave goods, gravekeeper, grave lantern, graveless, gravelike, grave marker, gravemound, grave-rob, graverobber, grave robber, graverobbing, grave-robbing · +35 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at grave. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at grave. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at grave

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA