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graveful

noun

Etymology

From grave + -ful.

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

Definitions

  1. Enough to fill a grave.

    • Already the ivy has been carefully trained over it from top to bottom, and in front of it is a triple tomb, where a little knot of Frenchmen sleep between two gravefuls of the enemy.
    • Christ tears away the turf from our assumption of virtue and exposes a graveful of “dead men’s bones and uncleanness.”

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