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grave
What does grave mean?
grave (noun): an excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use grave in a sentence?
- He put flowers on his mother's grave. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce grave?
/ɡɹeɪv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does grave come from?
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”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of grave?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “grave”?
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What does “grave” mean?
an increase in size, number, value, or strength
Not quite: that's what growth means.
an excavation in the earth as a place of burial
Right! That's what “grave” means.
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
Not quite: that's what hand means.
a person who rules or guides or inspires others
Not quite: that's what leader means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “grave”?
team
Not quite: team means something else.
name
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tomb
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game
Not quite: game means something else.
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