Meanings (ES + gloss)
reservado • seco • serio • solemne • sombrío
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
[Mercuti] Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
bajo • grave
Low in pitch, tone etc.
The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
apremiante • grave
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.
Khrushchev made a grave miscalculation when he failed to appreciate the growing opposition to his power and overestimated the support of his bureaucracy.
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fosa • sepultura
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
He had lain in the grave four days.
Let mee not be ashamed, O Lord, for I haue called vpon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the graue.
Phrases
begravebeyond the gravecold in one's gravecommon gravecradle to gravecradle-to-gravedance on someone's gravedig one's grave with a forkdig one's grave with a fork and spoondig one's own gravefollow to the gravegrave candlegrave dancergrave dancinggrave diggergrave goodgrave goodsgrave lanterngrave markergrave robbergrave waxgrave-dancygrave-goodgrave-goodsgrave-robgrave-robbinggraveboundgraveclothesgravedancegravedancergravediggergravedigginggravedomgravefulgravekeepergravelessgravelikegravemoundgraverobbergraverobbing
Word forms
Meanings (ES + gloss)
grabar
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks.
Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
grabar
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
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