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单词 grave
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grave1/grayv/ noun

a pit excavated for the burial of a body or bodies

a tomb

(the grave) literary death

the end or destruction of something, the place where it ended, or the thing that caused it to end

the grave of all my hopes

turn in one's grave

used to suggest that a dead person would strongly disapprove of something if he or she knew about it

Your grandmother would turn in her grave if she saw you dressed like that

After what they did to the symphony, Beethoven must be turning in his grave

[Old English græf]

grave2adj

requiring serious consideration; important

grave problems

likely to produce great harm or danger

a grave mistake

solemnserious and dignified

drab in colour; sombre

said of a sound: low in pitch

gravely adv
graveness noun
[early French grave from Latin gravis heavy, serious]

grave3verb trans (past part. graven graved)

archaic to engrave (something)

literary to fix in the mind

[Old English grafan]

grave4verb trans

to clean and then tar (e.g. a ship's bottom)

[Middle English graven, perhaps from Old French grave, greve shore, because orig the ship would have been beached]

grave5/grahv/ noun

a mark (`) placed over a vowel in some languages to show that it is pronounced in a particular way with a fall of pitch (e.g. in ancient Greek) or has a particular tone quality (e.g. è in French)

grave adj
[early French grave: see grave2]
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