superl. - Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
superl. - Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
superl. - Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
superl. - Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
superl. - Slow and solemn in movement.
n. - To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
n. - To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
n. - To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
n. - To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
n. - To entomb; to bury.
v. i. - To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
n. - An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.