Word Meaning

Meaning of "graves" and the crossword clue

- Burial place
- Burial site
- Last resting place
- Mark work
- Moving crabwise
- Serious and solemn
- Solemn (ceremony)
- Stern
- Very serious
- Burial chambers
- Burial places
- Burial sites
- Mausoleums
- Synthetic material
- To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
- Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
- Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
- Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
- Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
- Slow and solemn in movement.
- To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
- To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
- To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
- To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
- To entomb; to bury.
- To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
- An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
- The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.