grave
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- n death of a person
he went to his grave without forgiving me
from cradle to grave - n 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 - n a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- v shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
- v carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
engrave a pen
engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's - s dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
a grave God-fearing man - s causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
a grave situation
a grave illness - s of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
grave responsibilities
faced a grave decision in a time of crisis
- Lisa Burks, a friend of Sinclair's and a self-described "grave hunter" (her website is called Adventures in Grave Hunting), says she was once escorted from the Great Mausoleum by .
- Soft-voiced, hard-eyed men in Kentucky's "Bloody" Harlan County began saying Ambrose Metcalfe was a "candidate" (meaning, for the graveyard) almost as soon as he.
- Elvis Presley has actually had two graves.