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ADJECTIVE grave COMPARATIVE graver SUPERLATIVE gravest

grave English

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grave Adjective

— If a problem or situation is grave, it is bad and serious. She's in danger, Frank. Grave danger. Aren't you willing to do anything to help her? — If a person looks or acts grave, they look serious and worried. He looked very grave indeed, and sat staring quiety at his table-full of papers. — A grave accent is the mark over the e shown here: è.

grave

— noun death of a person he went to his grave without forgiving me from cradle to grave — noun a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) he put flowers on his mother's grave — adjective (= sedate, sober, solemn) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises a grave God-fearing man a quiet sedate nature as sober as a judge a solemn promise the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence — adjective (= dangerous, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm a dangerous operation a grave situation a grave illness grievous bodily harm a serious wound a serious turn of events a severe case of pneumonia a life-threatening disease — adjective (= grievous, heavy, weighty) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought grave responsibilities faced a grave decision in a time of crisis a grievous fault heavy matters of state the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference — noun (= grave accent) a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation — verb (= scratch, engrave) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface engrave a pen engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree — verb (= sculpt) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband

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grave English » English

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Topics grave topics

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Simple sentences

I hesitated to leave his grave.

He has one foot in the grave.

Mankind digs its own grave by its approach.

Tom had one foot in the grave.

The boy dug a grave for his dog that had died.

I visited my father's grave.

The atomic bomb is a grave threat to mankind.

We visited our father's grave.

He is digging his own grave.

He made a grave mistake.

They dug a grave.

The room was as still as the grave.

He's digging his own grave.

The boy dug a grave for his dead pet.

She carried that habit to her grave.

In Ankara, I made clear that America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.

In Ankara, I made clear that the United States is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security.

She's digging her own grave.

Movie subtitles

Mr Bugle, we'll be seeking a court order to exhume the body. No, no!..from Mr Broadly's grave.

And they want him to go to the grave with it.

True, I have committed a grave sin, been denounced by my family and forced into exile.

A lonely pilgrim, wandering about the open grave of this dead city.brings the city back to life in his mind.

A grave responsibility.

But Dame Margarete now spent half the day in the churchyard by her first husband's grave.

The first sailor that was infected pulled the whole crew down into a dark, watery grave.

Take this shovel and dig a grave!

But, Professor, according to your own theory, the vampire must return to his grave before dawn.

I'm afraid he's working himself into an early grave.

Now I can but rant and rave, that damned medal will be my grave.

From the grave?

Now I can but rant and rave - this funeral will be my grave.

They done started to dug my grave already.

I thought I would have to carry your identity with me to the grave!

Refusing a gift is a grave insult.

They violated a saint's grave!

Neither priests nor church servants beyond the grave.

But it's stomach in, chest out, and back on your feet, or you end up in a pauper's grave!

We consider this woman a very grave danger.

Tell my wife. She'll get me a grave.

Her grave is on the hill at the far edge of the compound.

Very grave charge. I dont know the Chinese woman but the other lady.

I got one foot in the grave.

I'll take care of your father's grave.

If I go on with it, I'll be doing her a grave injustice.

Orie has gone to pray at her mother's grave.

So they dig the grave in the middle of the road where people pass all the time.

Back to the grave, Monsieur?

Each grave is indicated by a cross. Or by a piece of wood.

I don't see the sense in sitting, waiting for the grave.

I have a matter of grave importance to take up, sir.

Always bringing matters of grave importance to my head.

Where's Serge Grave?

We're silent as the grave.

Kind of high and mighty, ain't ya, for a grave robber?

Now, when you were in the graveyard, Were you anywhere near Horse Williams' grave? Yes, sir.

Both buried in the same grave.

I'll carry your guilty secret to my grave.

News and current affairs

In short, the scientific evidence is strong and growing that the planet is at grave risk, with many ill effects already being felt and more to come.

Starting a war is always a grave step, and the effects are never neatly calculable.

The second reason adduced is that Saddam poses a grave security threat to the US and to his region.

So the question is simply whether the threat emanating from Russia is so grave that this kind of strategic reorientation on the part of the West is required?

If so, there would be no denying that we continue to face grave problems, including of course the threat of catastrophic climate change.

On the contrary, it would be a grave mistake to assume that fanatical Islamism fully defines Saudi attitudes toward religion.

But in this case our concerns were so grave as to overcome any disagreements.

Road safety is a grave concern.

Pollution remains a grave challenge as well.

The grave realities that confront China-for example, corruption and the ever-widening social gap-will not be raised as matters for debate.

The destruction of the Chinese satellite produced roughly 300,000 pieces of debris, causing severe pollution and putting many other spacecraft in the Earth's orbit in grave danger.

The Bretton Woods system institutionalized America's geopolitical supremacy, leaving the old imperial power, the UK, to step aside - a step that it took graciously, if a little desperately, given its grave postwar economic situation.

But if we do not stand up to them we all run a grave risk of repeating some of history's great mistakes.

Bush and Blair must show that any weapons of mass destruction that are recovered posed a grave and urgent threat.

On the other hand, the Court cannot charge - or refrain from charging - a senior political or military official responsible for grave crimes solely to avert negative political repercussions.

If so, the global system that has secured peace, security, openness, and economic growth over the past six decades could be in grave danger.

Of course, a grave question arises about the now-ruling Supreme Council of the Military High Command in Egypt: How can the enforcers of the status quo become the agents of change?

He also visited the UN compound in the center of Gaza to express the UN's grave concern over its bombing.

While North Korea's nuclear arsenal is much smaller, persistent doubts about the regime's sustainability make it a matter of grave concern.

If that idealistic democrat Nehru had not been cremated, India's stance toward Burma might cause him to turn over in his grave.

Yet it is a grave challenge to international peace and could spread instability throughout the region.

The second reason that Bush's reelection is likely to hurt the human rights cause is that it constitutes an endorsement by the majority of Americans of an administration that is responsible for grave human rights abuses.

Even if the nuclear threat is contained, the twenty-first century could confront us with grave new global perils.

That would be a grave strategic error, based on a fundamental misreading of Asian security dynamics.

But debt remains a grave challenge for southern Africa as a whole.

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