Grave
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.
Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
Slow and solemn in movement.
To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
To entomb; to bury.
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
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Grave Quotations
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Khalil Gibran
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?
Richard Dawkins
I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.
Elizabeth I
Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
Stephen Fry
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
Grave Translations
grave in Dutch is groeve, graf
grave in Finnish is hauta
grave in French is tombe
grave in German is Grab, Grab, graven, schwerwiegend
grave in Italian is pesante, tomba, grave
grave in Latin is sepulchrum, serius, tumulus
grave in Norwegian is betydningsfull, alvorlig, grav
grave in Portuguese is sepultura
grave in Spanish is tumba, pesado
grave in Swedish is viktig, grav, allvarlig
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