Grave Definition
A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.
- dissolution
- be infirm
- be very old
- be very ill
- be near death
- err
- sin
- do something disrespectful
- do something shocking
- last sleep
- decay
- permanent address
- pit for the dead
- wooden shroud
- pine
- to be very ill, old, or infirm; be near death
- to be shocked or distressed
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Grave
- have one foot in the grave
- spin in one's grave
Origin of Grave
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From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graf (“a grave”), Low German graf (“a grave”), German Grab (“a grave”), Swedish grav (“a grave”), Icelandic gröf (“a grave”). Cognate to Albanian gropë (“a ditch, hole”). Related to groove.
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrābʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”).
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Middle English graven from Old English grafan ghrebh-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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French from Old French from Latin gravis gwerə-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English from Old English græf ghrebh-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From French grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”).
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Italian from Latin gravis heavy grave2
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English graven
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Old Low German grēve
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