Grave

Definition: Grave

Grave

Adjective

1. Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence".

2. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia".

3. Of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference".

Noun

1. Death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave".

2. A place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave".

3. A mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation.

Verb

1. Shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband".

2. Write upon; engrave a pen, for example.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "grave" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Grave

Engraving

Verb: engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph; Noun: print.

Excitability

Adjective: inexcitable, unexcitable; imperturbable; unsusceptible; (insensible); unpassionate, dispassionate; cold-blooded, irritable; enduring; Verb: stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed; sober, sober minded; grave; sober as a judge, grave as a judge; sedate, demure, cool-headed.

Greatness

Goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone, arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.; important; unsurpassed; (supreme); complete. august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic; (repute).

Pain

Sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic, pyrotic.

Vice

Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.

Crosswords: Grave

Danish (dig, grub, spade), French (acute, acuteness, bass, enormous, grave, grievous, important, low, low-pitched, portentous, serious, severe, solemn, weighty), French Canadian (serious), Italian (bad, deep, earnest, grave, grievous, harsh, heavy, important, serious, severe, solemn, unsmiling, weighty), Latin (burdensome, grave, heavy, important, oppressive, painful, pregnant, serious), Norwegian (dig, grub), Papiamen (important, serious), Portuguese (earnest, engrave, grave, grievous, important, momentous, ponderous, portentous, serious, severe, solemn, staid), Spanish (acute, alarming, bad, court, courtyard, deep, demure, desperate, difficult, dignified, grave, grievous, grim, gross, heavy, important, low, lower, nasty, serious, severe, weighty, yard).

Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

I see you standing over the grave of another dead president (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

To enter your home as your mother's sick-nurse and send her body into the grave while my own into your father's marriage bed. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

I'll put you in your grave again (The Mummy Returns; writing credit: Stephen Sommers)

I'll get even if I have to crawl back from the grave to do it (Marked Woman; writing credit: Abem Finkel; Robert Rossen)

That kinda lovin' sends a man right to his grave (Crazy; performing artist: Aerosmith)

They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave. (Rainy Day Women #12 & 35; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

'cause you dug your own grave, uh huh (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA)

I've seen old men crying at their own grave sides (Do Ya; performing artist: Electric Light Orchestra)

He was just eighteen, proud and brave, But a Yankee laid him in his grave, (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; performing artist: Joan Baez)

Old folks say, "The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. (references; author: unknown)

Last Grave at Dimbaza (1973)

From Beyond the Grave (1973)

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)

The Beauty's Grave (1957)

Out of the Grave (1916)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Leave the Grave Green (reference)

• White Man's Grave (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Grave of the Fireflies (Collector's Edition) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Back From the Grave (reference)

• One Foot in the Grave (reference)

• Unquiet Grave, Vol. 1 (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Grave marker of an unknown on Flaxman Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Sir Ernest Shackleton's grave on South Georgia Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Grave on Kelton RoadCanyon Creek Fire RehabNear Mountain HomeOregon TrailLower Snake River District. Credit: W. Meyer.

Grave marker south of Three IslandsOregon TrailLower Snake River District. Credit: W. Meyer.

Rogue River - Grave Creek Bridge. Dedication of Grave Creek Bridge, built by CCC. Credit: Unknown.

Gear Grass blossom (Xerophyllum tenax) along Grave Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Close up of a Red-flowering Currant (Ribes sanquineum) found along Grave Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle.

Location of original grave sites (remains have been relocated) at the Indian Emigrant relations interpretative area along the Oregon Trail, Rock Springs Field Office. Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Grave Site at Izembek. Credit: Alaska Image Library.

Hudson's Bay Company Grave. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A freeman shall not be amerced for a slight offense, except in accordance with the degree of the offense; and for a grave offense he shall be amerced in accordance with the gravity of the offense, yet saving always his "contentment"; and a merchant in the same way, saving his "merchandise"; and a villein shall be amerced in the same way, saving his "wainage" if they have fallen into our mercy: and none of the aforesaid amercements shall be imposed except by the oath of honest men of the neighborhood. (reference)

The Members of the League agree that the manufacture by private enterprise of munitions and implements of war is open to grave objections. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Harriet looked grave.

This landlady was grave and stern

Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood

All this time, Roger Chillingworth was looking at the minister with the grave and intent regard of a physician towards his patient

He ferreted through this immense grave.

He had been cast for it on account of his stature and grave manners for he was now at the end of his second year at Belvedere and in number two.

Ah, that thou wouldst as soon afford a grave As thou canst yield a melancholy seat

The men came from the grave, their faces shining with perspiration

They were after the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

When a serious emotional disturbance in a child or adolescent goes untreated, it can have grave personal, social, and economic impacts on the child and his or her family. (references)

Business

Landslides and flooding are also a grave concern in Italy. (references)

A resident of Netherlands has traditionally been insured from the cradle to the grave under the generous, but costly, socialized welfare state. (references)

The year began with the Kargil crisis (a war like situation on the Indo-Pakistan border), which threatened to have a grave impact on the economy. (references)

Children

Chile

The SENAME reported that 9,723 cases of abuse were brought to its attention in 1998. From mid-1998 to December 1999, the SENAME brought to the courts 713 cases for child abuse, 314 for rape, 292 for sexual abuse, 79 for grave harm done to children, and 28 cases of homicide. (references)

Civil Liberties

Central African Republic

A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the sit-in would have posed a grave threat to public order. (references)

Cuba

On June 5, state security officials placed a wreath on Diosdado's grave with the words "To Taino, from your brothers in Security," an allegation that the deceased had collaborated with state security forces. (references)

Economic History

Bulgaria

In very grave cases, the Penal Code specifies prison terms of 10 to 30 years. (references)

South Africa

Violent crime and organized criminal activity are at high levels and are a grave concern. (references)

Angola

The ongoing grave economic situation largely prevents any government support for social institutions. (references)

Human Rights

Niger

The Government acknowledged the existence of the mass grave. (references)

Zimbabwe

One week later, Nkala's body was found in a shallow grave 25 miles southwest of Bulawayo. (references)

Angola

There were reports that at least one mass grave was discovered in the area, which the Government attributed to UNITA. (references)

Political Economy

Peru

On August 27, Congress voted unanimously to remove former President Fujimori's immunity from prosecution as a former head of state, and in September he was indicted on charges of murder, causing grave injuries, and responsibility for forced disappearances. (references)

Women

Kazakhstan

The NGO Women's Information Center reported over 13,000 crimes committed against women in the first 6 months of the year, among which more than 8,800 were considered grave crimes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A grave

Expressions using "grave": a watery grave ♦ as secret as the grave ♦ be as secret as the grave ♦ be as silent as a grave ♦ bring one's gray hairs with sorrow to the grave ♦ commit grave mistake ♦ family grave ♦ from beyond the grave ♦ from the cradle to the grave ♦ grave accent ♦ grave clothes ♦ grave desecration ♦ grave digger ♦ grave face ♦ grave field ♦ grave find ♦ grave mound ♦ grave on wood ♦ grave robber ♦ grave robbery ♦ grave robbing ♦ grave slab ♦ grave stone ♦ grave voice ♦ Grave wax ♦ grave yard ♦ have one leg in the grave ♦ having one foot in the grave ♦ look grave ♦ mass grave ♦ megalithic grave ♦ on the brink of the grave ♦ one foot in the grave ♦ pauper grave ♦ paupers grave ♦ pauper's grave ♦ silent as the grave ♦ sink into the grave ♦ the grave closes over one ♦ totter to one's grave ♦ tottering on the brink of the grave ♦ turn in one's grave ♦ war grave ♦ with one foot in the grave ♦ world beyond the grave. Additional references.

Beginning with "grave": grave-clothes, grave-clothing, grave-digger, grave-diggers, grave-digging, grave-faced, grave-good, grave-goods, grave-marker, grave-markers, grave-robber, grave-robbers, grave-robbing, grave-sites, grave-statue, Grave-stone, grave-stones, grave-though, grave-vase, grave-yard.

Ending with "grave": cradle-to-grave.

Afrikaans

benouend (airless, alarming, burdensome, onerous, oppressive, serious, stiffling, sultry). (various references)

Albanian

varr (lair, Mold, mould, sepulchre, shrine, tomb), solemn (gala, go to meeting, solemn, state), serioz (bad, crying, deep, demure, dress, earnest, heavy, nasty, reliable, serious, solemn, weighty), pllakë varri, me peshë (ponderous), madhor (major), kërcënues (comminatory, denunciative, denunciatory, endangering, impending, minacious, minatory, ominous, pendent, threatening), jo i mprehtë (dull, mild), i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i rëndësishëm (capital, consequential, earnest, epoch making, eventful, front page, important, imported, impressive, inflated, jack in office, mattery, mouth-filling, notable, noteworthy, responsible, serious, sidy, significant, substantial, tidy), i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, knock about, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كالح (gloomy, glum, grim, morose, stern, surly), ‏مميت (deadly, deathly, fatal, fateful, gangrenous, internecine, lethal, mortal, pernicious), ‏متزن (sedate, self possessed, sober, solemn), ‏قبر (burial, bury, inter, sepulcher, sepulture, shrine, tomb), ‏حفرة (bore, cavity, excavation, fossa, hole, hollow, pit, trough), ‏حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), ‏غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, secret, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), ‏حرج خطير, ‏ضريح (mausoleum, sepulcher, sepulchre, shrine, tomb), ‏خفيض, ‏خطير (acute, critical, dangerous, eventful, grievous, hazardous, heavy, important, irresistible, momentous, redoubtable, risky, risque, serious, severe, significant, ticklish, unsafe, weighty), ‏جليل (august, dignified, exalted, glorious, grand, great, honorable, honourable, important, imposing, lofty, magnificent, portly, respectable, significant, solemn, splendid, stately, sublime, venerable), ‏رمس (sepulchre), ‏رزين (calm, demure, level, level headed, matronly, portentous, sedate, serious, sober, sober minded, staid, stoical). (various references)

Bulgarian 

внушителен (awesome, compulsive, gallant, handsome, heroic, imperial, imposing, impressive, noble, portly, proud, towering), прост (abc, artless, childlike, common, commonplace, easy, elemental, elementary, funky, homelike, homespun, humble, illiberal, low, native, onefold, open and shut, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, rugged, rustic, simple, sleazy, straight, straightforward, uncomplicated, unpretentious, vulgar), ад (abyss, hell, inferno, pandemonium, tartarus), замислен (abstracted, broody, contemplative, immersed in thought, intended, meditative, pensive, preoccupied, reflective, ruminant, thoughtful, wistful), застрашителен (alarming, formidable, fulminatory, ominous, sinister, ugly), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), нисък (base, keen, low, low-browed, low-pitched, short, thickset), печален (dark, disconsolate, distressful, distressing, dolorous, drear, grievous, heavyhearted, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful, tearful, tristful, woeful), важен (consequential, dignified, fatal, importable, important, magisterial, major, material, mighty, necessitous, newsy, pompous, pontifical, portentous, prominent, sage, serious, significant, solemn, sounding, staple, substantial, top-line, weighty), смърт (curtains, death, decease, demise, departure, divide, doom, dust, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, fate, happy release, last, passing, quietus, tomb), гибел (death, disaster, doom, fate, perdition, ruin, ruination, shipwreck, subversion, undoing), граве, гроб (feretory, lair, sepulchre, tomb, urn), тежък (cumbrous, dense, difficult, distressing, faint, grievous, grinding, hammering, hard, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lumping, lumpish, lumpy, massive, massy, muggy, onerous, painful, plodding, ponderous, robust, rugged, sad, severe, shrewd, sledgehammer, slow, smart, smashing, soggy, solemn, sore, stiff, stodgy, taxing, thorny, tight, tough, traumatic, trying, unwieldy, uphill, weighty), тържествен (grand, grandiloquent, solemn, state, stately), сериозен (earnest, heavy, intent, prayerful, sad, sage, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, somber, sombre, staid, steady, straight), неукрасен (austere, inornate, simple, unadorned, undecked, unenlivened, unvarnished). (various references)

Catalan

tomba (tomb). (various references)

Chinese 

窀 , 坟墓 (Graves), 嚴重 (critical, serious, severe). (various references)

Czech

znepokojující (alarming, disconcerting, uneasy), zasmušilý (dull, gloomy, spleenful, subdued, sullen), závažný (grand, grievous, important, major, momentous, of great moment, relevant, satisfactory, valid, weighty), velký (big, considerable, exquisite, grand, great, gross, hearty, heavy, high, intense, large, long, loose, man-sized, spacious, tall, wide), vážný (austere, dangerous, earnest, good, major, mellow, pensive, portly, serious, solemn, solid, stern, straight, strong, wistful), tìžký (bad, chunky, dangerous, difficult, grievous, hard, heady, heavy, labored, laboured, man-sized, ponderous, severe, stodgy, thick, uphill, weighty), povážlivý, nebezpeèný (dangerous, hairy, hazardous, perilous, risky, ugly, unsafe), hrob (resting place, sepulcher, tomb). (various references)

Danish

vugge til grav (cradle to grave), kirkegårdsdækjord (black grave yard soil, covering soil). (various references)

Dutch

groeve (ditch, hole, pit, tomb), graf (tomb). (various references)

Esperanto

tombo (tomb), maltrankviliga (anxious, serious). (various references)

Faeroese

grøv (tomb). (various references)

Farsi 

مهم (Chief, Considerable, Earthshaking, Epochal, Grand, Great, Head, Important, Main, Material, Momentous, Principal, Serious, Significant, Smacker, Substantial), موقر (Demure, Sedate, Sober, Solemn, Staid), نقش کردن (Depict, Engrave, Inscribe), قبرکندن , قبر (Sepulcher, Tomb), گودال (Cavern, Cavity, Hole, Pit, Puddle, Sinus, Swag, Trench, Vesicle), حفرکردن (Cave, Excavate, Gull), تراشیدن (Carve, Erase, Excoriate, Expunge, Face, Grain, Pare, Rase, Raze, Scrape, Shave, Trim, Whittle), سنگین (Burdensome, Cumbersome, Demure, Earnest, Heavy, Hefty, Laden, Lumpy, Onerous, Ponderous, Sober, Staid, Stodgy, Unwieldy, Weighty), سخت (Adjacent, Chronic, Crusty, Demanding, Difficult, Dogged, Dour, Eburnated, Exquisite, Grim, Rigid, Rigorous, Rocky, Rugged, Serious, Severe, Sore, Steely, Stratify, Stringent, Strong, Troublesome), خطرناک (Calamitous, Disastrous, Dngerous, Herculean, Ill, Jeopardous, Malignant, Perilous, Serious, Venturesome), دفن کردن (Bury, Lay, Sepulcher), بم (Bass), بزرگ (Adult, Arch, Big, Bulky, Egregious, Enormous, Extensive, Extra, Grand, Great, Gross, Headman, Jumbo, Large, Lofty, Majestic, Major, Massive, Mighty, Sizable, Sizeable, Swith, Vast, Voluminous). (various references)

Finnish

hauta (tomb). (various references)

French

tombe. (various references)

Frisian

grêf (tomb). (various references)

German

grab (ruination, sepulcher, shrine, tomb), gruft (crypt, tomb, vault). (various references)

Greek 

καίριος (critical, timely), σοβαρόσ (burning, demure, earnest, important, matronal, matronly, saturnine, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, staid), χαράσσω (carve, cut, incise, inscribe, notch, score, scrive), τύμβοσ (tomb, tumulus), τύμβος (barrow), τάφοσ (sepulcher, tomb), τάφος (tomb). (various references)

Hebrew 

שחת (pit, pitfall), שאול (abyss, borrowed, hell, lent, loaned, lower world, pandemonium, underworld), קבר (gravestone, sepulcher, sepulchre, tomb, tombstone), חמור (ass, austere, burro, critical, donkey, drastic, jackass, moke, serious, severe, stern, strict, stringent), אשמן (darkness), דומה (akin, alike, analogous, like, resembling, same, silence, similar, stillness, such), באר שחת (hell), רציני (deep, demure, earnest, important, serious, severe). (various references)

Hungarian

sírhalom (sepulchral mound), sír (cry, last resting-place, long home, sepulcher, sepulchre, to be in tears, to pipe one's eyes, to rabbit, to rabbit on, to wail, weep), nehéz (burdensome, complicated, cumbersome, cumbrous, damper, difficult, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard case, heavy, hefty, herculean, inconvenient, it's a bad job!, knotty, laborious, onerous, ponderous, stiff, stodgy, teaser, thorny, to be bunkered, to be hard to please, tough, trying), megfontolt (advised, chary, conscious, considered, deliberate, discreet, earnest, guarded, judicious, leisurely, level headed, level-headed, measured, prudent, reflective, sedate, slow, staid, studied, uncompanionable), komoly (businesslike, earnest, sedate, serious, sincere, sober-minded, solemn, staid, stern), higgadt (collected, composed, cool-headed, demure, even tempered, impassible, imperturbable, level headed, level-headed, moderate, philosophical, placid, quiescent, sedate, self possessed, self-collected, self-possessed, serene, sober, sober-blooded, staid, unperturbed), farag (carve, chisel, hew, scrimshaw, sculpt, sculpture, shave, skive, to carve, to chip, to pare, to sculpt, to sculpture, to trim), ünnepélyes (ceremonial, ceremonious, festive, solemn, to salaam, to solemnize). (various references)

Indonesian

gawat (critical, dangerous, serious), memahat (carve, emboss, sculpt), kuburan (cemetery, entombment, tomb). (various references)

Irish

uaigh. (various references)

Italian

tomba (burial, tomb, vault), grave (bad, deep, earnest, grievous, harsh, heavy, important, serious, severe, solemn, unsmiling, weighty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

謹厳 (sobersided, solemn, stern), 荘重 (impressive, solemn), 墳墓 (tomb), 墓 (tomb), 危うい (close, critical, dangerous, limping, narrow, uncertain, unreliable, watch out!). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いかめしい (austere, intense, majestic, severe, solemn, stern, strict), はかあな, じゅうだい (important, serious, successive generations, teenage, the teens, the tenth generation, weighty), げんぜん (before one's eyes, solemn), げんぜんたる (majestic, solemn, stern), グレイブ , ゆゆしい (alarming, serious), あやうい (close, critical, dangerous, limping, narrow, uncertain, unreliable, watch out!), はか (age 16, age 64, deflowering, puberty, tomb), あぶなっかしい (close, critical, dangerous, limping, narrow, uncertain, unreliable, watch out), おもおもしい (dignified, exceedingly, frequently, serious, sincerely), せいざん (blue or green mountain, survival), つかあな, ふんぼ (tomb), ぼけつ, きんげん (maxim, sobersided, solemn, stern, wise saying, Yours Sincerely...), そうちょう (early morning, impressive, master sergeant, president, secretary-general, sergeant major, solemn), きびしい (austere, intense, majestic, relentless, rigid, severe, solemn, stern, strict, unsparing), あぶない (close, critical, dangerous, limping, narrow, uncertain, unreliable, watch out!). (various references)

Korean 

무덤 (Graves, tomb, Tombs). (various references)

Manx

trome-chooishagh (important, serious), trome (bold, burdensome, close, close oppressive, crippling, crippling burden, deep, deep-drawn, dense, dense of smoke, difficult, emphatic, expectant, expecting, grievous, gruelling, hard, harsh, heavy, heavyweight, high pressure, intense, laborious, onerous, ponderous, pregnant, rough of sea, severe, sledge-hammer, steep, stodgy, substantial, sweated, wearying, weighty, with child), oaye, grainnaghey (carve, carving, chase, engrave, graving, incise, inlay, inscribe, sculpture, tool), feeudagh (decent, discreet, modest, prudent, worthy), fastagh (cautious in speech, inarticulate, modest, mum, noncommittal, pensive, quiet, secretive, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative). (various references)

Maya

muksah (grave digger). (various references)

Norwegian

grav (tomb). (various references)

Pig Latin

avegray.(various references)

Portuguese

sepultura (charnelhouse, lair, sepulture, tomb, vault). (various references)

Romanian

grav (austere, bad, badly, critical, gravely, grievously, important, low, low-pitched, matronal, serious, solemn, stern, weighty), grava (carve, chase, cut, emboss, engrave, etch, incise, inscribe), groapã (cavity, cell, hollow, pit, pitfall, pool, pot hole, socket), mormânt (cell, collection, last resting-place, Mold, monument, mould, sepulchre, sepulture, shrine, the tomb, tomb, urn), ciopli (carve, c