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- pronunciation:
- greIv
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a hole dug in the ground for burying a dead body.
The casket was lowered into the grave.The men dug the grave in the early hours of the morning.- synonyms:
- tomb
- similar words:
- mausoleum, pit, vault
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| definition 2: |
any final resting place of a corpse.
The field became the grave of hundreds of soldiers.He still visits his wife's grave often.- similar words:
- casket, cemetery, charnel, churchyard, coffin, crypt, graveyard, mausoleum, mound, necropolis, potter's field, sepulcher, vault
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| definition 3: |
the place or situation in which something dead, destroyed, forgotten, or the like is considered to lie.
Near this island is the grave of sunken ships.- similar words:
- burial, death, demise, graveyard, tomb
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| definition 4: |
death.
The grave cannot diminish his reputation.- synonyms:
- death, decease, demise
- similar words:
- passing
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