grave

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *graban, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graf (“a grave”), Low German graf (“a grave”), German Grab (“a grave”), Swedish grav (“a grave”), Icelandic gröf (“a grave”). Related to groove.

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A freshly dug grave

grave (plural graves)

  1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
    • (Can we date this quote?), John XI, 17.
      He had lain in the grave four days.
    • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      They reached the cemetery. The men went right down to a place in the grass where a grave was dug. They ranged themselves all round; and while the priest spoke, the red soil thrown up at the sides kept noiselessly slipping down at the corners.
  2. death, destruction.
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excavation for burial

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabanan (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”).

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grave (third-person singular simple present graves, present participle graving, simple past graved or grove, past participle graved or graven)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Ex. XXVIII.,9.
      Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Stevenson, Requiem
      This be the verse you grave for me / "Here he lies where he longs to be"
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Chaucer.
      With gold men may the hearte grave.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
    • (Can we date this quote?) Prior.
      O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
  5. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Shakespeare
      Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
  6. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) 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.
  7. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
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to carve letters or similar
to carve to give a shape
to impress on the mind

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From French grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”).

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grave (comparative graver, superlative gravest)

  1. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative. [16th-18th c.]
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.7:
      An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.
  2. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre. [from 16th c.]
  3. Low in pitch, tone etc. [from 17th c.]
    • (Can we date this quote?) Moore (Encyc. of Music).
      The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
  4. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. [from 19th c.]
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having a sense of seriousness
low in pitch, tone
serious in a negative sense
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grave (plural graves)

  1. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
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written accent

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  • IPA: /ɡraːvə/, [ˈɡ̊ʁɑːvə]

[edit] Etymology 1

From Italian grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, grave”).

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grave

  1. (music) grave (low in pitch, tone etc.)
  2. accent grave – accent grave, grave accent

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From Old Norse grafa (“to dig, bury”).

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grave (imperative grav, infinitive at grave, present tense graver, past tense gravede, past participle har gravet)

  1. dig (to move hard-packed earth out of the way)
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See grav (“grave, tomb, pit”).

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grave c.

  1. plural indefinite of grav

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grave

  1. singular present subjunctive of graven.

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grave

  1. seriously, gravely

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Borrowed from Latin gravis.

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grave (epicene, plural graves)

  1. serious
  2. solemn

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grave

  1. (informal) much; a lot
    Je te kiffe grave !
    I love you like crazy!

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grave

  1. first-person singular present indicative of graver
  2. third-person singular present indicative of graver
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of graver
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of graver
  5. second-person singular imperative of graver

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Borrowed from Latin gravis.

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grave m. and f. (m and f plural gravi)

  1. grave, serious
  2. heavy
  3. solemn

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grave

  1. nominative neuter singular of gravis
  2. accusative neuter singular of gravis
  3. vocative neuter singular of gravis

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From Latin gravis.

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grave m. and f. (plural graves)

  1. serious, grave
  2. low (sound)
  3. solemn
  4. (grammar) stressed in the penultimate syllable: paroxytone

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grave (infinitive gravar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of gravar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of gravar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of gravar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of gravar.

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grave

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of grav.
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