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English to English adjective
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Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | | Example: a grave God-fearing man
a quiet sedate nature
as sober as a judge
a solemn promise
the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence
source: wordnet30
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causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | | Example: a dangerous operation
a grave situation
a grave illness
grievous bodily harm
a serious wound
a serious turn of events
a severe case of pneumonia
a life-threatening disease
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of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | | Example: grave responsibilities
faced a grave decision in a time of crisis
a grievous fault
heavy matters of state
the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference
source: wordnet30 noun
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death of a person | | Example: he went to his grave without forgiving me
from cradle to grave
source: wordnet30
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a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | | Example: he put flowers on his mother's grave
source: wordnet30
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a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | | source: wordnet30
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An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. | | source: webster1913 verb
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shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | | Example: She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband
source: wordnet30
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carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | | Example: engrave a pen
engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's
the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. | | source: webster1913
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To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. | | source: webster1913
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