having a serious and dignified quality or demeanor a ~ and thoughtful look 3. significantly serious considerable, great ~ importance 2. likely to produce great harm or danger a ~ mistake d. meriting serious consideration important ~ problems c. adjective (~r ~st) Etymology: Middle French, from Latin gravis heavy, ~ - more at grieve Date: 1539 1. transitive verb (~d graving) Etymology: Middle English ~n Date: 15th century to clean and pay with pitch ~ a ship's bottom IV. an excavation for burial of a body broadly a burial place 2. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gr?f akin to Old High German grab ~, Old English grafan to dig Date: before 12th century 1. to impress or fix (as a thought) deeply II. to carve or cut (as letters or figures) into a hard surface en~ 3. to carve or shape with a chisel sculpture b.
transitive verb (~d ~n or ~d graving) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grafan akin to Old High German graban to dig, Old Church Slavic pogreti to bury Date: before 12th century 1. Phrases and idioms graving dock = dry dock. clean (a ship's bottom) by burning off accretions and by tarring. by in, on) fix indelibly (on one's memory). Etymology: F grave or L gravis heavy, serious 3. Phrases and idioms grave accent a mark (`) placed over a vowel in some languages to denote pronunciation, length, etc., orig. 2 extremely serious or threatening (grave danger). b dignified, solemn, sombre (a grave look). 1 a serious, weighty, important (a grave matter). Phrases and idioms turn in one's grave (of a dead person) be thought of in certain circumstances as likely to have been shocked or angry when alive. 3 something compared to or regarded as a grave. b a mound or memorial stone placed over this.
1 a a trench dug in the ground to receive a coffin on burial.
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