grave

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 grāv

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial. countable,uncountable
    — He had lain in the grave four days.
  2. A kilogram. obsolete
    — At the origin of the metric system the new unit of weight was called the grave, and was equivalent to the kilogram. The denomination grave would in some respects have been preferable to kilogram.
  3. A count, prefect, or person holding office. historical
  4. A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
  5. Any place of interment. broadly,countable,uncountable
  6. Any place containing one or more corpses. countable,uncountable
  7. Death, destruction. broadly,uncountable
    — […]Meeting is pleasure, parting is a grief; / An inconstant lover is worse than a thief; / A thief can but rob you, and take all you have, / An inconstant lover will bring you to the grave![…]
  8. Deceased people; the dead. broadly,uncountable
    — "Hold your jaw, woman! I've had enough to vex me to-day without you startin' your tantrums. You're jealous of the grave. That's wot's the matter with you." "And her brats can insult me as they like - me that 'as cared for you these five years."
动词 v.
  1. To dig. obsolete,transitive
    — He hath graven and digged up a pit.
  2. To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves were formerly used for this purpose. obsolete,transitive
  3. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. intransitive,obsolete
    — Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
  4. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. obsolete,transitive
    — to grave an image
  5. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. intransitive,obsolete
    — O! may they graven in thy heart remain.
  6. To entomb; to bury. obsolete,transitive
    — […]And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.
  7. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving. intransitive,obsolete
形容词 adj.
  1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
    — [Mercuti] Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
  2. Low in pitch, tone etc.
    — The thicker the cord or string, the more grave is the note or tone.
  3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
    — Israel’s behaviour is doing grave damage to the Palestinian people and to any hope for peace.
  4. Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ) dated
  5. Influential, important; authoritative. obsolete
    — An illiterate fool sits in a mans seat; and the common people hold him learned, grave, and wise.

词形变化

graves plural graves present,singular,third-person graving participle,present graved past graved participle,past graven participle,past graver comparative gravest superlative graves plural graves plural graves present,singular,third-person graving participle,present graved participle,past graved past graves plural

词汇关系

近义词
grievous
衍生词
begrave beyond the grave cold in one's grave common grave cradle-to-grave dance on someone's grave dig one's grave with a fork dig one's grave with a fork and spoon dig one's own grave follow to the grave cradle to grave the cradle to the grave gravebound grave candle graveclothes gravedance gravedancer grave dancer grave dancing grave-dancy gravedigger grave digger gravedigging gravedom graveful grave good grave-good grave-goods grave goods gravekeeper grave lantern graveless gravelike grave marker gravemound grave-rob graverobber grave robber grave-robbing graverobbing graveside gravesite gravesome gravestead gravestone graveward gravewards grave wax graveyard have one foot in the grave ingrave mass grave one foot in the grave on foenem grave passage grave pauper's grave quiet as a grave quiet as the grave roll in one's grave roll over in one's grave silent as a grave silent as the grave spin in one's grave take someone to the grave take something to one's grave take something to the grave take to the grave turn in one's grave turn over in one's grave ungrave war grave watery grave white man's grave grave as a judge graveness ungravely
相关词
groove begrave engrave engraven

词源

词源 1
From Middle English grave, grafe, from Old English græf, grafu (“cave, grave, trench”), from Proto-West Germanic *grab, from Proto-Germanic *grabą, *grabō (“grave, trench, ditch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with West Frisian grêf (“grave”), Dutch graf (“grave”), Low German Graf (“a grave”), Graff, German Grab (“grave”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian grav (“grave”), Icelandic gröf (“grave”). Related to groove.
词源 2
From Middle English graven, from Old English grafan (“to dig, dig up, grave, engrave, carve, chisel”), from Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ- (“to dig, scratch, scrape”). Cognate with Dutch graven (“to dig”), German graben (“to dig”), Danish grave (“to dig”), Swedish gräva (“to dig”), Icelandic grafa (“to dig”).
词源 3
From Middle French grave, a learned borrowing from Latin gravis (“heavy, important”). Compare Old French greve (“terrible, dreadful”). Doublet of grief.
词源 4
Inherited from Middle English greyve. Doublet of graaf (borrowed from the Dutch cognate graaf (“count, earl”)) and graf (borrowed from the German cognate Graf (“count, earl”)).
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