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grave1 (grāv)
n.
    1. An excavation for the interment of a corpse.
    2. A place of burial.
  1. Death or extinction: faced the grave with calm resignation.

[Middle English, from Old English græf.]


grave2 (grāv)
adj., grav·er, grav·est.
  1. Requiring serious thought; momentous: a grave decision in a time of crisis.
  2. Fraught with danger or harm: a grave wound.
  3. Dignified and somber in conduct or character: a grave procession. See synonyms at serious.
  4. Somber or dark in hue.
  5. (also gräv) Linguistics.
    1. Written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres.
    2. Of or referring to a phonetic feature that distinguishes sounds produced at the periphery of the vocal tract, as in labial and velar consonants and back vowels.
n. Linguistics (also gräv)
A mark ( ` ) indicating a pronounced e for the sake of meter in the usually nonsyllabic ending -ed in English poetry.

[French, from Old French, from Latin gravis.]

gravely grave'ly adv.
graveness grave'ness n.

grave3 (grāv)
tr.v., graved, grav·en (grā'vən), or graved, grav·ing, graves.
  1. To sculpt or carve; engrave.
  2. To stamp or impress deeply; fix permanently.

[Middle English graven, from Old English grafan.]


grave4 (grāv)
tr.v., graved, grav·ing, graves.
To clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch.

[Middle English graven.]


gra·ve5 (grä')
adv. & adj. Music
In a slow and solemn manner. Used chiefly as a direction.

[Italian, from Latin gravis, heavy. See grave2.]




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