GRAVE - I adjective BAD : I don't have any grave problems.GRAVE - See: ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE, TURN IN ONE'S GRAVE or TURN OVER IN ONE'S GRAVE.GRAVE - Synonyms and related words : abject, abominable, acute, afflictive, agonizing, annihilation, arch, aristocratic, arrant, assemble, atrocious, august, autolithograph, awe-inspiring, awful, ….noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a grave error (= extremely serious, with serious results ) ▪ He has committed … ( graver, gravest) Frequency: The word is one of …Ĭollins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary GRAVE - Pronounced /greɪv/ except for meaning 5, when it is pronounced /grɑ:v/.n.1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. b dignified, solemn, sombre (a grave look). 1 a serious, weighty, important (a grave matter). 1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary *grave / greɪv NAmE / noun, adjective -see also grave (II) ■ noun 1. GRAVE - I grave noun 'burial place' adjective 'serious' verb BrE AmE ɡreɪv ▷ graved ɡreɪvd ▷ graver ˈɡreɪv ə AmE - ….OE grafan akin to OHG graban to dig, OCS … GRAVE - vt graved grav.en or graved grav.ing [ME, fr.Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary grave ˈgrāv transitive verb ( graved grav Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary Webster's New International English Dictionary en -vən or graved graving graves ) Etymology: Middle ….low-pitched, deep) accento grave grave accent More meanings of this word and English-Russian, Russian-English translations for the word «GRAVE» in dictionaries. If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their ~ at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.ĭarwin must be turning in his ~ at the thought of what is being perpetrated in his name.Ĭollins COBUILD. For example, the word ‘mere’ has a ~ accent over the first ‘e’. In some languages such as French, a ~ accent is a symbol that is placed over a vowel in a word to show how the vowel is pronounced. ‘I think I’ve covered that business more than adequately,’ he said ~ly. William was up on the roof for some time and when he came down he looked ~. They had ~ly impaired the credibility of the government.Ī ~ person is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour. I have ~ doubts that the documents tell the whole story.

He said that the situation in his country is very ~. Most men would rather go to the ~ than own up to feelings of dependency.Ī ~ event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying. You can refer to someone’s death as their ~ or to death as the ~. Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.Ī ~ is a place where a dead person is buried.

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