| Grave: English to English |
| Grave (n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. |
| Grave (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. |
| Grave (n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. |
| Grave (n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. |
| Grave (n.) To entomb; to bury. |
| Grave (n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. |
| Grave (superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. |
| Grave (superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. |
| Grave (superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. |
| Grave (superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. |
| Grave (superl.) Slow and solemn in movement. |
| Grave (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. |
| Grave (v. t.) 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. |