graver
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- n a tool used by an engraver
- s dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- s causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- s of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- He also hoped to free Chinese from graver forms of social exploitation by building a central government that would counter the rampant forces of capitalism in industry and of .
- In The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce (Hyperion) she argues that the harm caused by divorce is graver and longer lasting than we suspected.
- All of those are certainly terrible crimes and possibly even graver sins.