1. an excavation for the interment of a corpse.
2. A place of burial.
3. death or extinction: faced the grave with calm resignation.
4. requiring serious thought; momentous: a grave decision in a time of crisis.
5. fraught with danger or harm: a grave wound.
6. dignified and somber in conduct or character: a grave procession. see synonyms at serious.
7. somber or dark in hue.
8. linguistics written with or modified by the mark ( ` ), as the è in Sèvres.
9. linguistics 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.
10. linguistics A mark ( ` ) indicating a pronounced e for the sake of meter in the usually nonsyllabic ending -ed in english poetry.
11. to sculpt or carve; engrave.
12. to stamp or impress deeply; fix permanently.
13. to clean and coat (the bottom of a wooden ship) with pitch.
14. music in a slow and solemn manner. used chiefly as a direction.

1. an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
2. death, destruction.
3. A written accent used in french, italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
4. to dig.
5. to carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
6. to carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
7. to impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
8. to entomb; to bury.
9. to clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
10. to write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

1. of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
2. of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.
3. not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain.
4.
5. not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound.
6. slow and solemn in movement.
7. an excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. hence: death; destruction.
8. to write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
9. to clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
10. to dig. [obs.] chaucer.
11. to carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
12. to carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
13. to impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
14. to entomb; to bury.

1. to dig; delve.
2. . to bury; entomb.
3. to cut or incise, as letters or figures, on stone or other hard substance with an edged or pointed tool; engrave.
4. to carve; sculpture; form or shape by cutting with a tool: as, to grave an image.
5. . to make an impression upon; impress deeply.
6. . having weight; heavy; ponderous.
7. solemn; sober; serious: opposed to light or jovial: as, a man of a grave deportment.
8. plain; not gay or showy: as, grave colors.
9. important; momentous; weighty; having serious import.
10. in acoustics, deep; low in pitch: opposed to acute.
11. the grave accent; also, the sign of the grave accent (`).
12. in music, to render grave, as a note or tone.
13. to clean (a ship's bottom) by burning or scraping off seaweeds, barnacles, etc., and paying it over with pitch.
14. in music, slow; solemn: noting passages to be so rendered.
15. an excavation in the earth, now especially one in which a dead body is or is to be buried: a place for the interment of a corpse; hence, a tomb; a sepulcher.
16. figuratively, any scene or occasion of utter loss, extinction, or disappearance: as, speculation is the grave of many fortunes.
17. sometimes, in the authorized version of the old testament, the abode of the dead; hades.
18. A count; a prefect: in germany and the low countries— formerly, a person holding some executive or judicial office: usually in composition with a distinctive term, as landgrave, margrave (*mark-grave), burgrave (*burg-grave), dike-grave, etc.; now merely a title of rank or honor.

1. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
2. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
3. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
4. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
5. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
6. death of a person
7. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
8. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it