grave

grave is a 5-letter English word with 22 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 22 senses

Definitions

1. A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave. See Margrave.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. superlative. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
4. superlative. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
5. superlative. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
6. superlative. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
7. superlative. Slow and solemn in movement.
8. noun. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
9. noun. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
10. noun. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
11. noun. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
12. noun. To entomb; to bury.
13. intransitive verb. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
14. noun. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
15. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: tomb

16. noun. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
17. noun. death of a person

    "he went to his grave without forgiving me"

    "from cradle to grave"

18. verb. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

    "engrave a pen"

    "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"

    Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch

19. verb. 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"

    Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture

20. adjective. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

    "a dangerous operation"

    "a grave situation"

    Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, serious, severe

21. adjective. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

    "grave responsibilities"

    "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"

    Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty

22. adjective. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

    "a grave God-fearing man"

    "a quiet sedate nature"

    Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn

Synonyms

tomb, engrave, inscribe, scratch, sculpt, sculpture, dangerous, grievous, serious, severe, heavy, weighty, sedate, sober, solemn

Common word forms

graved, graver, graves, gravely, gravest, graving, graveless, graveness

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