grave
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Noun 4 meanings
An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Any place of interment.
Any place containing one or more corpses.
Death, destruction.
Adjective 4 meanings
Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness.
Low in pitch, tone etc.
Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
Etymology
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”).
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GRAVE at a glance
GRAVE has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (G 2 + R 1 + A 1 + V 4 + E 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,158 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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