grave

Definition

  • noun: a hole in the ground for burying a dead body
  • verb: to carve or shape with a chisel
  • adjective: very serious
  • adjective: meriting serious consideration
  • used to talk about death
  • synonyms: dig, sculpture, authoritative

Examples

  • We went to the cemetery to visit my aunt's 'grave'. [=to visit the place where my aunt's body is buried]

  • She took her secrets with her to the 'grave'. [=she died without telling anyone her secrets]

  • A hard life 'drove him to an early grave'. [=caused him to die when he was fairly young]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) if like a crab you could go backwards Though this be madness, yet there is method in it - Will you walk out of the air, my lord? - Into my grave? My honourable lord, I will take my leave of you You cannot, sir, take from me anything that I will more willingly part withal Except my life. (..)
    2015 Hamlet
  • (..) - Aye by heaven, my lord There's not a villain dwelling in all Denmark but he's an arrant have There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave to tell us that Why right, you are in the right. It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you As for your desire to know what is between us, (..)
    2015 Hamlet