meaning of grave
1. To dig. [Obs. ] Chaucer.
2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
5. To entomb; to bury.
6. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
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 clean, as a vessels bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc. , and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
9. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
10. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc. ; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
11. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
12. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
13. Slow and solemn in movement.
14. a place for the burial of a corpse especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone; "he put flowers on his mothers
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