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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • music Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
  • music Slow and solemn in movement.
  • Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
  • obsolete Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
  • Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.

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Verb:

  • obsolete To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
  • obsolete|nautical 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.
  • obsolete To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  • obsolete To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
  • obsolete To Chaucer.
  • obsolete To entomb; to bury. ?Chaucer.
  • obsolete To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

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