grave in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
grave in Kashmiri कॉशुर
grave in Sindhi سنڌي
grave in English
- grave⇄adj. slow and solemn in tempo.
- grave⇄adj. 1. earnest; thoughtful; serious.
Ex. a grave situation, symptoms, or news. People are grave in church.
(SYN) formidable.
2. dignified; solemn; not gay.
Ex. grave music, a grave face, a grave ceremony.
3. important; w - grave⇄adv. gravely.
- grave⇄adv. slowly and solemnly.
- grave⇄expr. (make one) turn in his grave, (to cause a dead person) to be disturbed by an action that was abhorrent to him in his lifetime.
Ex. Those abstract paintings would make Rembrandt turn in his grave. Jefferson might turn in his grave if he knew o - grave⇄expr. as secret as the grave, very secret.
Ex. The correspondence I kept as secret as the grave (Leigh Hunt). - grave⇄expr. dig one's own grave, to cause one's own downfall or ruin.
Ex. It [a regime] is, in fact, already corrupted by its own power and is probably digging its own grave as a result (London Times). - grave⇄expr. one foot in the grave. See under foot.
- grave⇄grave (1), noun.
1. a hole dug in the ground where a dead body is to be buried.
Ex. We buried the bird that the cat killed in a little grave dug in the backyard.
2. the mound or monument over it; tomb.
3. any place of burial. < - grave⇄grave (2), adjective, graver,gravest,noun.
- grave⇄grave (3), transitive verb, graved,gravedorgraven,graving.
1. to engrave; carve; sculpture.
Ex. This be the verse you grave for me Here he lies where he longed to be (Robert Louis Stevenson).
2. (Figurative.) to impress deeply; fix firm - grave⇄grave (4), transitive verb, graved,graving.
to clean (a ship's bottom) and cover it with pitch. - grave⇄grave (5), adjective, adverb.
(Music.) - grave⇄noun grave accent.
- grave⇄noun graveness.