Word Meaning

graves definition and meaning

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.
superl. Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
superl. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
superl. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
superl. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
superl. Slow and solemn in movement.
n. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
n. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
n. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
n. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
n. To entomb; to bury.
v. i. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
n. pl. The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.

Crossword clues for graves

- Burial place
- Burial site
- Last resting place
- Mark work
- Moving crabwise
- Serious and solemn
- Solemn (ceremony)
- Stern
- Very serious
- Burial chambers
- Burial places
- Burial sites
- Mausoleums
- Synthetic material