grave (verb)

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• Grave accent — The grave accent ( ) is a diacritical mark used in written Catalan, French, Greek until 1982 (polytonic orthography), Italian, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Welsh, Dutch, and other languages.The word grave is… …   Wikipedia

• grave — I. /greɪv / (say grayv) noun 1. an excavation made in the earth to receive a dead body in burial. 2. any place of interment; a tomb or sepulchre. 3. any place that becomes the receptacle of what is dead, lost or past: the grave of dead… …  

• grave — I. transitive verb (graved; graven or graved; graving) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grafan; akin to Old High German graban to dig, Old Church Slavic pogreti to bury Date: before 12th century 1. archaic dig, excavate 2 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• grave — grave1 noun a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or corpse. ↘(the grave) death. Phrases dig one s own grave do something foolish which causes one s downfall. turn (N. Amer. also roll over or turn over) in one s grave (of a dead person) be …   English new terms dictionary

• grave — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ deep, shallow ▪ The body was found in a shallow grave. ▪ open ▪ The mourners threw flowers into the open grave. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• grave — Modern English has essentially two words grave. Grave ‘burial place’ goes back ultimately to prehistoric Indo European *ghrebh ‘dig’, which also produced Latvian grebt ‘hollow out’ and Old Church Slavonic pogreti ‘bury’. Its Germanic descendant… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• grave — Modern English has essentially two words grave. Grave ‘burial place’ goes back ultimately to prehistoric Indo European *ghrebh ‘dig’, which also produced Latvian grebt ‘hollow out’ and Old Church Slavonic pogreti ‘bury’. Its Germanic descendant… …   Word origins

• grave — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sepulcher, tomb, mausoleum; death.See interment. adj. important, weighty, serious; sedate, dignified; momentous, solemn; dull, somber. See dejection, importance, inexcitability. II (Roget s IV) modif …   English dictionary for students

• take something to the grave — verb To never reveal a secret to ones death. Houdini took his secrets to the grave, as he died shortly after performing one of his most famous escapes …   Wiktionary

• dance on someone's grave — verb To celebrate a persons death triumphantly. See Also: piss on someones grave …   Wiktionary

• turn in one's grave — verb to be appalled, offended or disgusted by something, despite being deceased Beethoven is probably turning in his grave at the way that rock group mangled his Ninth Symphony …   Wiktionary