1. grave - Noun
2. grave - Adjective
3. grave - Verb
5. grave - Adjective Satellite
6. Grave - Proper noun
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.
Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
Slow and solemn in movement.
To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
To entomb; to bury.
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLet all partake of the feast of faith. Let all receive the riches of goodness. Let no one lament their poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed. Let no one mourn their transgressions, for pardon has dawned from the grave. Let no one fear death, for the Saviour's death has set us free. John Chrysostom
Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave. Quentin Crisp
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Dorothy Dix
Your woman should be in the house or in the grave. Somali Proverb
If men could see the epitaphs their friends write they would believe they had gotten into the wrong grave. American Proverb
A dead man does not know where his grave is. Bantu Proverb