| 单词 | grave |
| 释义 | grave (once / 50 pages) 1n 2adj 3v 4n A grave is the place where a body is buried. Usually, a grave is dug in the ground, and a stone with information about the deceased person marks its location. Grave is used as an adjective, too. It can describe something serious, or of great importance. If a situation is grave, it is serious and sad, like when a loved one is very sick. Grave can also describe causing fear or anxiety. If you are in grave danger, your personal safety is threatened. If you have a grave personality, you are solemn and dignified and don't joke around very much. WORD FAMILYgrave: graved, gravely, graveness, gravest, graving, gravity+/gravitate: gravitated, gravitates, gravitating, gravitation, gravitative/gravitation: gravitational, gravitations/gravitational: gravitationally/gravity: gravitate, gravities USAGE EXAMPLESTraditionally a grave disappointment, New Year’s Eve is at least a time to cut loose and escape the suffocating, sprout-scented stranglehold of the family Christmas. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Ten more were found in a mass grave near a town in the area. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) After she died, she was buried with grave goods far in excess of others. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1n 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 Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper tomb Holy Sepulcher the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection Mausoleum at Halicarnasusa white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402 Taj Mahalbeautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture a chamber that is used as a grave mastaba, mastabahan ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof crypta cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) mausoleuma large burial chamber, usually above ground monument, repositorya burial vault (usually for some famous person) burial vault, vaulta burial chamber (usually underground) place, spot, topographic point a point located with respect to surface features of some region 2n death of a person 2he went to his grave without forgiving me from cradle to grave Hyper death, demise, dying the time when something ends 1adj of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought grave responsibilities faced a grave decision in a time of crisis Syn grievous, heavy, weighty important, of import of great significance or value 2adj causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm a grave situation a grave illness Syn dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe critical being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency 3adj dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises 3a grave God-fearing man Syn sedate, sober, solemn serious concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities 1v shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it Syn|Hyper sculpt, sculpture sculpt, sculpture create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material carve form by carving 2v carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper engrave, inscribe, scratch engrave, etch carve or cut a design or letters into character engrave or inscribe characters on carve, chip at engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface n a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation Syn|Hyper grave accent accent, accent mark a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
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