Graves /gräv/

1. A white (or red) table wine from the Graves district in the Gironde department of France
2. (loosely) any dry or medium-dry white wine

grave¹ /grāv/

1. A pit dug out, esp one to bury the dead in
2. Any place of burial
3. The abode of the dead (Bible)
4. Death, destruction (figurative)
5. A deadly place

1. To dig (obsolete)
2. To engrave on a hard substance (archaic)
3. To fix deeply (eg on the mind) (archaic)
4. To bury (obsolete)

To engrave

graveˈless adjective (Shakespeare)

grāvˈer noun

1. An engraving tool, eg a burin
2. An engraver (archaic)

grāvˈing noun

graveˈ-clothes plural noun

The clothes in which the dead are buried

graveˈ-digger noun

grave goods plural noun (archaeology)

Artefacts (eg pottery, jewellery, weapons) put into a grave along with the corpse

graveˈ-maker noun (Shakespeare)

A grave-digger

graveˈside noun

The area around a grave (also adjective)

graveˈstone noun

A stone placed as a memorial at a grave

graveˈ-wax noun (obsolete)

Adipocere

graveˈyard noun

A burial ground

graveyard shift noun (slang)

A work shift starting at midnight or during the night

dig one's own grave

To do something that brings misfortune on oneself

turn in one's grave

(of a dead person) to be disturbed from one's rest by an occurrence that would have been particularly distressing to one's living self

with one foot in the grave

1. On the brink of death
2. Very ill and/or old

grave² /grāv/

1. Of importance
2. Serious, not gay or showy
3. Sedate
4. Solemn
5. Weighty
6. Calling for anxiety
7. Very dangerous
8. Low in pitch
9. (also /gräv/) marked with a grave accent

A grave accent

graveˈly adverb

graveˈness noun

grave accent /gräv/ noun

A mark (`), orig indicating a pitch falling somewhat, or failing to rise, now used for various special purposes (as in French)

grave³ /grāv/

To clean (by burning, etc) and seal with tar (a wooden ship's bottom)

graving dock noun

A dry dock for the cleaning and repair of ships

grave⁵ /grāv/

A count, prefect, a person holding office (now obsolete except in compounds, such as landgrave, margrave, burgrave)

greaves /grēvz/ or (obsolete) graves /grāvz/

Dregs of melted tallow

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