| ADJECTIVE | all | grave, sedate, sober, solemn | dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises |
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| all | grave, dangerous, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening | causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | |
| all | grave, grievous, heavy, weighty | of great gravity or crucial import | |
| NOUN | time | grave | death of a person |
| artifact | grave, tomb | a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | |
| communication | grave, grave accent | a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | |
| VERB | contact | grave, sculpt, sculpture | shape (a material like stone / stone or wood) by whittling away at it |
| contact | grave, scratch, engrave, inscribe | carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface |
| Sounds | grey'v | |
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| Rhymes | airwave ... wave / Wave: 29 rhymes with eyv... | |
| Meaning | dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises. | |
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| Example | "a grave God-fearing man" | |
| Synonyms | sedate, sober, solemn | |
| Broader | serious | concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities |
| Catalan | formal, greu, solemne | |
| Spanish | formal, grave, solemne | |
| Nouns | graveness, gravity | a manner that is serious and solemn |
| Adverbs | gravely | in a grave and sober manner |
| Meaning | Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. | |
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| Synonyms | dangerous, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening | |
| Broader | critical | In or verging on a state of crisis or emergency |
| Catalan | greu, perillós, seriós, sever | |
| Spanish | grave, peligroso, serio, severo, terrible, tremendo | |
| Adverbs | gravely | to a severe or serious degree |
| Meaning | Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought. | |
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| Synonyms | grievous, heavy, weighty | |
| Broader | important, of import | Of great significance / significance or value |
| Nouns | graveness, gravity | a manner that is serious and solemn |
| Meaning | death of a person. | |
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| Broader | death, dying, demise | The time when something ends |
| Meaning | A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone). | |
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| Example | "he put flowers on his mother's grave" | |
| Synonym | tomb | |
| Parts | gravestone, headstone, tombstone | A stone that is used to mark a grave |
| Narrower | burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture | A chamber that is used as a grave |
| mastaba, mastabah | An ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof | |
| Broader | topographic point, place, spot | A point located with respect to surface features of some region |
| Catalan | tomba | |
| Spanish | tumba | |
| Meaning | A mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation. | |
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| Synonym | grave accent | |
| Broader | accent, accent mark | A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
| Meaning | shape (a material like stone / stone or wood) by whittling away at it. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonyms | sculpt, sculpture | |
| Broader | carve | form by carving |
| Similar to | sculpt, sculpture | create by shaping stone / stone or wood or any other hard material |
| Catalan | gravar | |
| Spanish | grabar | |
| Meaning | carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
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| Synonyms | scratch, engrave, inscribe | |
| Narrower | character | engrave or inscribe characters on |
| Broader | carve, chip at | engrave / engrave / engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface |
| Similar to | engrave, etch | carve or cut a design or letters into |
| Catalan | gravar, inscriure | |
| Spanish | grabar, inscribir | |