GRAVE
- place of or an excavation for burial of a dead body
- serious or solemn
- important
- to be so frail, sick, or old that death appears imminent
- extremely serious [adj GRAVER, GRAVEST] / to engrave (to form by incision) [v GRAVED, GRAVEN, GRAVEN, GRAVES, GRAVING]
- to do something to which a specified dead person would have objected bitterly
- dig excavate
- carve or shape with a chisel sculpture
- carve or cut (as letters or figures) into a hard surface engrave
- impress or fix (as a thought) deeply
- to engrave (to carve a design upon) [v GRAVED, GRAVEN, GRAVING, GRAVES] / extremely serious [adj GRAVER, GRAVEST]