Grave

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Grave

Grave : கடுமையான

Grave : கடுமையான,கல்லறை

Grave definition

Transitive verb. 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.

superl.

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

Noun.

  1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
  4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  5. To entomb; to bury.
  6. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.

Intransitive verb. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.