Crossword-Solution: GRAVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| 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. | Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. |
| Grave | superl. | Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. |
| Grave | superl. | Slow and solemn in movement. |
| Grave | n. | To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer. |
| 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 impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. |
| Grave | n. | To entomb; to bury. |
| Grave | v. i. | To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. |
| Grave | n. | An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GRAVE | anagram | VGEAR |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with GRAVE (5)
Filled with joy was Mudjekeewis When he looked on Hiawatha, Saw his youth rise up before him In the face of Hiawatha, Saw the beauty of Wenonah From the grave rise up before him.
Which when _Beelzebub_ perceiv’d, then whom, _Satan_ except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem’d A Pillar of State; deep on his Front engraven Deliberation sat and publick care; And Princely counsel in his face yet shon, Majestick though in ruin: sage he stood With _Atlantean_ shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest Monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as Night Or Summers Noon-tide air, while thus he spake.
Gore was a grave man, and, though a young man, he indulged in no jokes, said no funny words, seldom smiled.
Ivar had never learned to speak English and his Norwegian was quaint and grave, like the speech of the more old-fashioned people.
Here, in the quiet of Boldwood’s parlour, where everything that was not grave was extraneous, and where the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week, the letter and its dictum changed their tenor from the thoughtlessness of their origin to a deep solemnity, imbibed from their accessories now.
Quotes with GRAVE (3)
He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.
Izzi: Remember Moses Morales? Tom Verde: Who? Izzi: The Mayan guide I told you about. Tom Verde: From your trip. Izzi: Yeah. The last night I was with him, he told me about his father, who had died. Well Moses wouldn't believe it. Tom Verde: Izzi... Izzi: [embraces Tom] No, no. Listen, listen. He said that if they dug his father's body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew in…
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 82 times in crossword archives (1968–2023).