Definition of Grave

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Definition of Grave

Grave

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.

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Grave Quotations

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau

If Roosevelt were alive today, he'd turn over in his grave.
Samuel Goldwyn

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
Blaise Pascal

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
Lord Byron

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
Paul Harvey

Grave Translations

grave in Dutch is groeve, graf
grave in Finnish is hauta
grave in French is tombe
grave in German is Grab, Grab, graven, schwerwiegend
grave in Italian is pesante, tomba, grave
grave in Latin is sepulchrum, serius, tumulus
grave in Norwegian is betydningsfull, alvorlig, grav
grave in Portuguese is sepultura
grave in Spanish is tumba, pesado
grave in Swedish is viktig, grav, allvarlig

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