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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grave
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a grave error (=extremely serious, with serious results)
▪ He has committed a grave error.
a serious/grave mistake
▪ There was a serious mistake in the instructions.
a serious/grave mistake
▪ The decision to take the money was a serious mistake.
a serious/grave risk (=real and big)
▪ The most serious risk of flooding this evening is on the River Wye.
a war grave
▪ He had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders.
as silent as the grave (=completely silent in a mysterious or uncomfortable way)
dig a hole/trench/grave etc
▪ They dig a small hole in the sand to bury their eggs.
grave concern (=very great concern)
▪ This disagreement was a matter of grave concern to the US.
grave/great/serious/severe misgivings (=serious and important worries)
▪ Most of us have grave misgivings about the idea of human cloning.
grave/serious danger (=very great)
▪ You have put us all in grave danger.
great/grave/serious peril
▪ The economy is now in grave peril.
serious/grave doubts
▪ They have some serious doubts as to his honesty.
serious/grave reservations
▪ They had serious reservations about the plan.
unmarked grave
▪ an unmarked grave
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ I reckon that hat's in for an early grave.
▪ Because if the indestructible Earnhardt can be put into an early grave, they all can.
▪ Yet bows and arrows are very rare in early Anglo-Saxon graves.
▪ The only thing you get out of that is an early grave.
▪ Widows are suing the companies for death benefits, demanding compensation for the loss of husbands worked into an early grave.
mass
▪ Most sombre of all is the tomb over the mass grave of the R-101 victims at Cardington, Bedfordshire.
▪ In Los Mochis, meanwhile, bodies are being exhumed from the mass graves one by one as they are identified.
▪ Village residents stated that at least 100 people had been murdered and buried in mass graves in the area.
▪ But the tombs were empty; the bodies had been bulldozed into mass graves in the south, where they had fallen.
▪ They don't even have basic maps. Mass graves are already being dug.
▪ Arms and legs, some of which still moved, were sticking out of the mass graves.
▪ Discovery of Stalinist victims' graves During March a number of mass graves were found near former concentration camps or prisoner-of-war camps.
open
▪ You were looking into an open grave.
▪ Something similar was happening now in that open grave in the snow.
▪ Holman lay at the bottom of the open grave where he'd been roughly dumped.
▪ Davey runs, but trips into an open grave.
shallow
▪ At first they saw only the little hand - the fist, decomposed but stretching out of the shallow grave.
▪ Later, a badly decomposed body was found in a shallow grave five miles from the Lindbergh estate.
▪ He died in May and the Seales buried him in a shallow grave in a park.
▪ They looked like pets in a shallow grave.
▪ Meg's coffin was lowered into a shallow grave packed in the dry, hard ground.
▪ Her body was found buried in a shallow grave in a grove two days after she was last seen with Thompson.
▪ Perhaps in a shallow grave of leaves and twigs.
▪ Hours before the rebels arrived his body was hurriedly wrapped in a blanket and secreted in a shallow grave.
silent
▪ The huge room was as silent as the grave.
▪ Stone House is the silent grave of an active industry that died at the turn of the present century.
unmarked
▪ The bodies that disappeared into unmarked graves?
▪ His unmarked grave is just past mile 194.
▪ Somewhere in unmarked graves, deep in earth, they are anonymous.
▪ Another wasted corpse in yet another unmarked grave.
▪ The beautiful, mountainous countryside is littered with the shallow, unmarked graves of the assassinated.
▪ Mozart was buried in the customary way in an unmarked mass grave, and its exact location has never been discovered.
watery
▪ Moves are now being made to lift the aircraft from its watery grave and preserve it locally.
▪ Steward needed three shots to escape his watery grave and had a drenched set of waterproofs to prove it.
▪ Should any fellow be passing by, he must refuse their invitation or else they will dance him to a watery grave.
■ NOUN
war
▪ They are pressing their government to stop the diving and turn Truk into a war grave.
▪ More than 800 men died and their bodies still lie in what has become Britain's most sacred maritime war grave.
▪ They are reburied with full military honours in the region's Commonwealth war graves.
▪ Several years before we saw her, she had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders.
▪ After they have been examined, they will be buried with full military honours at one of the war graves.
■ VERB
bury
▪ Village residents stated that at least 100 people had been murdered and buried in mass graves in the area.
▪ They then buried him in a grave that Phocas had prepared for himself during the night.
▪ Those corpses, the ones he had buried in their makeshift grave under the old elm tree who were they?
▪ Her body was found buried in a shallow grave in a grove two days after she was last seen with Thompson.
▪ They were buried in mass graves, the corpses piled one on top of the other under a few inches of soil.
▪ Hundreds of people were killed and buried in shallow graves beside the road.
▪ But sadly, she may never be able to prove what killed the people buried in the mass graves.
dig
▪ If he went against this young man sitting opposite him, he would in effect dig his own grave.
▪ Tom Kitain to its freshly dug grave by a grove of olive and cypress trees.
▪ Richard Lombu, standing next to a freshly dug mass grave, also remembers the scene.
▪ They dug up her grave when I started agitating in the Movement.
▪ Another witness describes how he was captured by the rival faction and forced to dig graves to bury their dead.
▪ I would dig the grave myself, six feet down into the dense clay soil.
▪ They had already dug Graham Taylor's grave.
▪ They dug graves for only one day before the Ecumenical Chaplaincy pulled Fritz Huls from his duties.
digging
▪ By failing to provide stories for a significant proportion of the population, are they not digging themselves a grave?
▪ These guys were digging their own graves, and women all over the country were watching while they kept right on shoveling.
▪ Then the burial party took a pace to the right and began digging the grave of another known soldier.
▪ They were digging a mass grave.
discover
▪ I have already discovered where the graves lie.
find
▪ She went into the churchyard and found their parents' grave.
▪ Later, a badly decomposed body was found in a shallow grave five miles from the Lindbergh estate.
▪ They are most commonly found in women's graves of the sixth century accompanied by a relatively large quantity of grave-goods.
▪ Later that day, we found more surface graves.
▪ Then Schramm found the row of graves.
▪ It is found predominately in female graves, either rough or faceted and polished, pierced and worn as beads.
lie
▪ So it might seem as if Snow could lie purring in his grave, and as if the two cultures were coming together.
▪ Only Corrary was still subdued, remembering his brother lying in a makeshift grave far from his home Rorim.
mark
▪ They were the equivalent of tombstones on land: they marked the actual graves.
▪ There were no walls, just rough stones the size of dinner-plates marking each grave.
▪ The best-preserved was designated L.F.1, where a fence of planks marked a grave.
rise
▪ Broken columns, rising over the graves of those who had died prematurely, denoted truncated lives.
▪ The walls are decorated with black wall hangings and tapestries depicting skeletal forms rising from crude graves.
turn
▪ Old time railwaymen would turn over in their graves!
▪ He looked up at the portrait of the handsome, intense Willard, who was almost certainly turning over in his grave.
▪ The possibility must have made Eleanor's ancestors turn in their graves.
▪ Imagining his grandfather turning in his grave at the very thought, he paid £120 to repair the old one.
visit
▪ And the family regularly visit his grave.
▪ We visit his grave every week and sometimes, Sophie will take something that she's made to put on it.
▪ Now she's visiting the graves of her husband and 7 of their children.
▪ Several years before we saw her, she had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders.
▪ Louise wished to visit Dorothy's grave, where the memorial stone was now in place.
▪ They had come to visit the graves of their own dead children.
▪ I did not ask if they had visited Montaine's grave, or if others who had loved Montaine had joined them.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a watery grave
▪ Should any fellow be passing by, he must refuse their invitation or else they will dance him to a watery grave.
dig your own grave
▪ By continuing to make racist comments before the committee, he really dug his own grave.
▪ I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave.
▪ I thought that before they shot you, they made you dig your own grave first.
▪ If he went against this young man sitting opposite him, he would in effect dig his own grave.
from (the) cradle to (the) grave
▪ The state now provided something of a protective safety net from the cradle to the grave.
▪ They should also inform shoppers as to the product's environmental friendliness from cradle to grave - evaluated according to standardized criteria.
have one foot in the grave
▪ She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And do the different types of grave reflect different periods or something else?
▪ Beethoven may be rolling over in his grave, but audiences love it.
▪ Her body was found buried in a shallow grave in a grove two days after she was last seen with Thompson.
▪ In fact, none of the graves has any marker at all, and the graveyard itself is unmarked and untended.
▪ One of two silver cups found together with a set of wine-drinking utensils in a grave.
▪ The miracles which have since occurred at his grave have confirmed his holiness.
▪ This band will not go to their graves with their songs still in them.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ It was so grave, so mad.
▪ If the matters concerned had not been so grave, it would have been equal to any comedy.
very
▪ Two of those wounded have very grave injuries.
▪ The charges in this case are very grave, and they are entirely false.
▪ He stopped dictating to take a phone call and I saw his face become shocked, then very grave.
▪ It is on the contrary a very grave flaw, latent but pernicious in its effects.
■ NOUN
concern
▪ However, there was grave concern about the future of the avionic department there.
▪ He told them he had received reports that had caused him grave concern.
▪ As for Stewart, the family developed grave concerns about his health.
▪ This matter is of the gravest concern to me, and to the good name of this unit.
▪ The Parish Council have asked me to express their grave concern that such an incident could have occurred at all.
▪ They watched with grave concern the formidable ascent of U2.
▪ It is a matter of grave concern.
consequence
▪ This has grave consequences for Britain.
▪ Even a tiny fling, even a protected one, can still have the gravest consequence.
▪ The paradox is all the stranger because the power shortage has had predictably grave consequences for economic growth.
danger
▪ Mr. Flannery Is there not a grave danger of the former Soviet Union lapsing into anarchy?
▪ I put myself to sleep each night by imagining that I am in grave danger.
▪ The building now stands in grave danger from the weather, derelict and in ruins.
▪ Huamanga, which had rejected all political influence, had few partisans in Congress and thereby found itself in grave danger.
▪ Lynda La Plante is in grave danger of burning herself out and it's no laughing matter.
▪ There is also a grave danger that the essence of education will be forgotten.
▪ I have placed you in the gravest danger.
▪ The four said their actions were reasonable, given what they alleged were the potentially grave dangers to the environment.
doubt
▪ But there is grave doubt among environmentalists as to whether the Government will fulfil its promises according to schedule.
▪ I had grave doubts about where he might take it.
▪ In my talk with Alec he himself expressed grave doubts whether he wished to take it on.
▪ There must, too, be the gravest doubts about a system which excludes those who prefer not to join a union.
▪ The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect.
▪ I have grave doubts about that.
▪ Simply as a proposition this is open to grave doubt.
error
▪ What sins, what meannesses, what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me.
▪ It would be a grave error to oversimplify any of these outcomes.
▪ He had committed a grave error in lending his approval, together with that of the Church he represented, to the Exhibition.
▪ She had made - and with far less justification than her father - the same grave error as he.
▪ He explained that we had made a grave error - it was Saturday afternoon.
▪ But as we left the tarmac road and headed up the hill I made a grave error.
▪ Here indeed, I thought, must lie some of those sins, meannesses and grave errors.
goods
▪ An abundance of grave goods, especially painted wares, accompanied the burials.
▪ The other grave goods provide what little evidence we have for the economic basis and material culture of its population.
▪ The deceased were deposited on their left side and the grave goods were reduced in quantity and included very little painted ware.
▪ Tomb inscriptions, the coffin, statues, stelae and other grave goods therefore bore the name.
▪ In many cultures, various objects, termed grave goods, were commonly deposited with human burials.
▪ All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century, the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures.
▪ He had no grave goods and that marked him pretty low both on the social scale and with the archaeologists.
▪ A similar ambivalence prevailed in the provision of grave goods as in the bestowal of presents.
misgiving
▪ Orkney Presbytery followed suit, stating their very grave misgivings about the procedures followed by Orkney Islands Council.
▪ As Soap beached the craft and ushered the two ashore, Pooley viewed the place with the gravest misgivings.
mistake
▪ Although, now she came to think about it, maybe such caution had been a grave mistake.
problem
▪ That is the gravest problem of all.
▪ The graver problems await the end of the war.
▪ Last night, it shouldered a graver problem.
▪ I shall argue that the suggestions which have been made carry with them grave problems.
reservation
▪ The Opposition have grave reservations about the Bill.
▪ Indeed, Humphrey had privately expressed grave reservations about the war, which Johnson had ignored.
risk
▪ In other words there is a grave risk of escalation.
▪ Some of these women took grave risks to start their businesses and faced even more danger when they succeeded.
site
▪ The president will also visit the grave sites of 12 youths killed in recent bombings.
▪ Two acres have been added to its six-acre collection of grave sites.
threat
▪ The advance of the disease presents a grave threat to the livestock industry.
▪ Hayek views the growing dominance of the conception of law as thesis as posing a grave threat to liberty.
▪ The inflationary spiral constituted a grave threat which, if not halted, could jeopardise the entire economy.
▪ It can indeed present a grave threat to democracy.
▪ But the gravest threat to health is posed by the total collapse of the economy, and the ensuing chronic poverty.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dig your own grave
▪ By continuing to make racist comments before the committee, he really dug his own grave.
▪ I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave.
▪ I thought that before they shot you, they made you dig your own grave first.
▪ If he went against this young man sitting opposite him, he would in effect dig his own grave.
from (the) cradle to (the) grave
▪ The state now provided something of a protective safety net from the cradle to the grave.
▪ They should also inform shoppers as to the product's environmental friendliness from cradle to grave - evaluated according to standardized criteria.
have one foot in the grave
▪ She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "It would be a grave mistake," said the president, "to ignore the problem, and pretend that it will go away."
▪ "We might be too late," she said gravely.
▪ a grave mistake
▪ A thick fog descended on the mountain, and I knew that we were in grave danger.
▪ Dr. Fromm looked grave. "I have some bad news," he said.
▪ His expression became very grave when we told him what had happened.
▪ Holmes looked grave, and stood deep in worried thought for a minute or two.
▪ I have grave doubts that this new government will last.
▪ The ambassador declared that there would be grave consequences if the hostages were not released.
▪ The situation is grave -- war now seems inevitable.
▪ There was a grave risk that the operation would leave him partly paralysed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although, now she came to think about it, maybe such caution had been a grave mistake.
▪ His expression was grave and he looked deep in thought.
▪ Luch looked over at Hector for his smile before bowing grave thanks.
▪ Oppenheimer was, by nature, a philosophical, rather grave person, but some of his colleagues were anything but.
▪ The advance of the disease presents a grave threat to the livestock industry.
III.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although, now she came to think about it, maybe such caution had been a grave mistake.
▪ His expression was grave and he looked deep in thought.
▪ I felt the sinking whir of the back wheel as it dug its own grave.
▪ Luch looked over at Hector for his smile before bowing grave thanks.
▪ Prosecutors said Saturday that the professed psychic is being held on charges ranging from grave robbery to conspiracy to mislead officials.
▪ The advance of the disease presents a grave threat to the livestock industry.
▪ Those who see all the monuments as tombs argue that grave robbers removed the evidence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grave

Grave \Grave\, v. i. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Grave

Grave \Grave\, v. t. (Naut.) 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

Grave \Grave\, a. [Compar. Graver (gr[=a]v"[~e]r); superl. Gravest.] [F., fr. L. gravis heavy; cf. It. & Sp. grave heavy, grave. See Grief.]

  1. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. [Obs.]

    His shield grave and great.
    --Chapman.

  2. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.

    Most potent, grave, and reverend seigniors.
    --Shak.

    A grave and prudent law, full of moral equity.
    --Milton.

  3. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.

  4. (Mus.)

    1. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.

      The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
      --Moore (Encyc. of Music).

    2. Slow and solemn in movement.

      Grave accent. (Pron.) See the Note under Accent, n., 2.

      Syn: Solemn; sober; serious; sage; staid; demure; thoughtful; sedate; weighty; momentous; important.

      Usage: Grave, Sober, Serious, Solemn. Sober supposes the absence of all exhilaration of spirits, and is opposed to gay or flighty; as, sober thought. Serious implies considerateness or reflection, and is opposed to jocose or sportive; as, serious and important concerns. Grave denotes a state of mind, appearance, etc., which results from the pressure of weighty interests, and is opposed to hilarity of feeling or vivacity of manner; as, a qrave remark; qrave attire. Solemn is applied to a case in which gravity is carried to its highest point; as, a solemn admonition; a solemn promise.

Grave

Grave \Grave\, v. t. [imp. Graved (gr[=a]vd); p. p. Graven (gr[=a]v"'n) or Graved; p. pr. & vb. n. Graving.] [AS. grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. greva, D. graven, G. graben, OHG. & Goth. graban, Dan. grabe, Sw. gr[aum]fva, Icel. grafa, but prob. not to Gr. gra`fein to write, E. graphic. Cf. Grave, n., Grove, n.]

  1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.

    He hath graven and digged up a pit.
    --Ps. vii. 16 (Book of Common Prayer).

  2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

    Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
    --Ex. xxviii. 9.

  3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.

    With gold men may the hearte grave.
    --Chaucer.

  4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

    O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
    --Prior.

  5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

    Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
    --Shak.

Grave

Grave \Grave\, n. [AS. gr?f, fr. grafan to dig; akin to D. & OS. graf, G. grab, Icel. gr["o]f, Russ. grob' grave, coffin. See Grave to carve.] An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

He bad lain in the grave four days.
--John xi. 17.

Grave wax, adipocere.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grave

1540s, from Middle French grave (14c.), from Latin gravis "weighty, serious, heavy, grievous, oppressive," from PIE root *gwere- (2) "heavy" (cognates: Sanskrit guruh "heavy, weighty, venerable;" Greek baros "weight," barys "heavy in weight," often with the notion of "strength, force;" Old English cweorn "quern;" Gothic kaurus "heavy;" Lettish gruts "heavy"). Greek barys (opposed to kouphos) also was used figuratively, of suffering, sorrow, sobbing, and could mean "oppressive, burdensome, grave, dignified, impressive." The noun meaning "accent mark over a vowel" is c.1600, from French.

grave

"to engrave," Old English grafan (medial -f- pronounced as "v" in Old English; past tense grof, past participle grafen) "to dig, carve, dig up," from Proto-Germanic *grabanan (cognates: Old Norse grafa, Old Frisian greva, Dutch graven, Old High German graban, German graben, Gothic graban "to dig, carve"), from the same source as grave (n.). Its Middle English strong past participle, graven, is the only part still active, the rest of the word supplanted by its derivative, engrave.

grave

Old English græf "grave, ditch, cave," from Proto-Germanic *graban (cognates: Old Saxon graf, Old Frisian gref, Old High German grab "grave, tomb;" Old Norse gröf "cave," Gothic graba "ditch"), from PIE root *ghrebh- (2) "to dig, to scratch, to scrape" (source also of Old Church Slavonic grobu "grave, tomb"); related to Old English grafan "to dig" (see grave (v.)).\n\n"The normal mod. representation of OE. græf would be graff; the ME. disyllable grave, from which the standard mod. form descends, was prob. due to the especially frequent occurrence of the word in the dat. (locative) case.

[OED]

\nFrom Middle Ages to 17c., they were temporary, crudely marked repositories from which the bones were removed to ossuaries after some years and the grave used for a fresh burial. "Perpetual graves" became common from c.1650. To make (someone) turn in his grave "behave in some way that would have offended the dead person" is first recorded 1888.
Wiktionary
grave

Etymology 1 n. 1 An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. 2 death, destruction. Etymology 2

vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To dig. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. Etymology 3

  1. 1 (context obsolete English) influential, important; authoritative. (16th-18th c.) 2 Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre. (from 16th c.) 3 low in pitch, tone etc. (from 17th c.) 4 serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable. (from 19th c.) n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an ''e'' with a grave accent.

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WordNet
grave

  1. n. death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"

  2. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave" [syn: tomb]

  3. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: grave accent]

  4. [also: graven]

grave

  1. v. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband" [syn: sculpt, sculpture]

  2. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup" [syn: engrave, inscribe]

  3. [also: graven]

grave

  1. adj. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "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" [syn: sedate, sober, solemn]

  2. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "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" [syn: dangerous, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]

  3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "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" [syn: grievous, heavy, weighty]

  4. [also: graven]

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Wikipedia
Grave (disambiguation)

A grave is a location where a dead body is buried.

Grave may also refer to:

  • In phonetics, diacritics and music
    • Grave accent, a diacritical mark
    • Grave (phonetic), a term used to classify sounds
    • Grave, a term for a slow and solemn music tempo or a solemn mood in general
    • Grave (band), a Swedish death metal band
  • Places
    • Grave, Netherlands, a municipality in the Dutch province North Brabant
    • La Grave, a commune in southeastern France
  • As a surname:
    • Dmitry Grave (1863–1939), Russian mathematician
    • Ivan Grave (1874–1960), Russian scientist
  • Other uses
    • Cognate of German Graf, a historical title of the German nobility, as in margrave
    • Grave (unit), an old name for the kilogram
    • Grave, the main character in the third-person shooter video games Gungrave and Beyond the Grave
    • "Grave" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the final episode of the sixth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    • Grave (film), a 2016 film also titled as Raw
Grave

A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial, such as graveyards or cemeteries.

Certain details of a grave, such as the state of the body found within it and any objects found with the body, may provide information for archaeologists about how the body may have lived before its death, including the time period in which it lived and the culture that it had been a part of.

In some religions, it is believed that the body must be burned for the soul to survive; in others, the complete decomposition of the body is considered to be important for the rest of the soul (see Bereavement).

Grave (band)

Grave is a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1986 by vocalist and guitarist Ola Lindgren, who is their only constant member. The band had particular success in the early 1990s, and their first four albums, Into the Grave, You'll Never See..., Soulless and Hating Life, cemented their reputation as one of Sweden's foremost death metal bands. Grave went on hiatus in 1997, but got back together two years later. Since then, they have released seven more albums, making a total of eleven studio albums.

Grave (crater)

Grave is a lunar crater that lies in the northern interior floor of the huge walled plain Gagarin, on the far side of the Moon. It is located about 10 kilometers to the east-northeast of the larger crater Isaev, which covers the northwestern part of Gagarin's interior.

Like many lunar craters, Grave has undergone some erosion due to subsequent impacts. There are small craters across the east and southwestern sides of the circular rim. There is a low rise near the midpoint of the interior.

Grave (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Grave" is the sixth season finale of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This episode is the second highest rated Buffy episode ever to air in the U.K., Sky One aired the episode which reached 1.22 million viewers on its original airing.

This is the only Buffy season finale not written and directed by Joss Whedon.

Grave (unit)

The grave was the original name of the kilogram, in an early version of the metric system between 1793 and 1795.

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Usage examples of "grave".

At the end of the chief thoroughfare flowed a deep and rapid brook, an affluent of the Coango, in the dry bed of which the royal grave was to be formed.

Bas-relief 8 Lions Frieze, Susa 9 Painted Head from Edessa 10 Cypriote Vase Decoration 11 Attic Grave Painting 12 Muse of Cortona 13 Odyssey Landscape 14 Amphore, Lower Italy 15 Ritual Scene, Palatine Wall painting 16 Portrait, Fayoum, Graf Collection 17 Chamber in Catacombs, with wall decorations 18 Catacomb Fresco, S.

Christians pursued the soul of the Apostate to hell, and his body to the grave.

Velikovsky does not mention how close to the Sun Venus is supposed to have passed, but a very close passage compounds the already extremely grave collision physics difficulties outlined in Appendix 1.

Could the undead have been guarding not only an archive but also a grave?

Tell me, O Darwin, shall we know on this side of the grave why or how the Adiantum Nigrum and Asplenium capillis Veneris, have reproduced themselves, or, to be more correct, have produced ghosts and fetches of themselves at the antipodes?

I had not wished the barque for myself, I would not have fought this war brig, and so lost several men and suffered grave damage.

But often during the long hot evenings, if Marcos were away for the night, Sabrina would visit the Gulab Mahal, and as the moon rose into the dusty twilight the women would sit out on the flat roofs of the zenana quarter looking out across the minarets and white roof-tops, the green trees and gilded cupolas of the evil, beautiful, fantastic city of Lucknow, while Aziza Begum cracked jokes and shook with silent laughter, stuffed her mouth with strange sweetmeats from a silver platter, or told long, long stories of her youth and of kings and princes and nobles of Oudh these many years in their graves.

A tincture of allied berries was used of old by ladies of fashion in the land of the Pharaohs, as discovered among the mummy graves by Professor Baeyer, of Munich.

If we were guilty, mine was the gravest betrayal in her mind, that was clear.

Unlike some of his predecessors, Blitz realized that a rapidly rearming Japan presented a grave danger in Asia.

His balding head bonked against the hull, and he sank like a stone into the cold green grave.

A common bravo of the canals is waylaid, among your despised graves, by the proudest Signor of Calabria!

The Bravo shuddered, and he moved among the despised graves in silence.

They had buried them in a flat, wide grave, and about three months after Brigg got to the garrison the grave was found.