OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 11497

grave

/ɡɹeɪv/
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.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 11496

grave

/ɡɹeɪv/
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.
Phrases
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