Definitions for the word "grave" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. superl.
Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. superl.
Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. superl.
Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. superl.
Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. superl.
Slow and solemn in movement.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
To entomb; to bury.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v. i.
To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
1 trench dug in the ground for the burial of a corpse; mound or memorial stone placed over this. 2 (prec. By the) death. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. adj.
1 a serious, weighty, important. B dignified, solemn, sombre. 2 extremely serious or threatening. n. = *grave accent. gravely adv. [latin gravis heavy]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
16. v.
(-ving; past part. Graven or graved) 1 (foll. By in, on) fix indelibly (on one''s memory). 2 archaic engrave, carve. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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