I. verb
1.
Synonyms: engrave 1, etch, incise
2.
Synonyms: impress 3, drive, hammer, pound, stamp
II. noun
a place of interment
his grave is in the church burial ground
Synonyms: burial, ||pit, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb
Related Word: catacomb, crypt, vault; mausoleum; ossuary; cinerarium
Idioms: final resting place
III. adjective
1.
Synonyms: serious 2, heavy, severe, weighty
2.
Synonyms: serious 1, earnest, no-nonsense, sedate, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber, staid, weighty
Related Word: heavy, ponderous; grim, sad, saturnine; awful, dreadful, horrible, terrible
Contrasted words: flippant, light, light-minded
Antonyms: gay
3.
involving marked risk of impairment or destruction
a grave illness
Synonyms: dangerous, fell, grievous, major, serious, ugly; compare dangerous 1
Related Word: deadly, destructive, dire, fatal, killing, murderous; frightening, ghastly, terrible; afflictive, severe
Contrasted words: paltry, petty, trivial; harmless, innocuous; temporary, transitory