(~r, ~st)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a place where a dead person is buried.
They used to visit her ~ twice a year.
N-COUNT
2.
You can refer to someone’s death as their ~ or to death as the ~.
...drinking yourself to an early ~...
Most men would rather go to the ~ than own up to feelings of dependency.
N-COUNT: oft to N, oft poss/adj N
3.
A ~ event or situation is very serious, important, and worrying.
He said that the situation in his country is very ~...
I have ~ doubts that the documents tell the whole story.
ADJ
~ly
They had ~ly impaired the credibility of the government.
ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v
4.
A ~ person is quiet and serious in their appearance or behaviour.
William was up on the roof for some time and when he came down he looked ~...
ADJ
~ly
‘I think I’ve covered that business more than adequately,’ he said ~ly.
ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj
5.
In some languages such as French, a ~ accent is a symbol that is placed over a vowel in a word to show how the vowel is pronounced. For example, the word ‘mere’ has a ~ accent over the first ‘e’.
ADJ: ADJ n
6.
If you say that someone who is dead would turn in their ~ at something that is happening now, you mean that they would be very shocked or upset by it, if they were alive.
Darwin must be turning in his ~ at the thought of what is being perpetrated in his name.
PHRASE: V and N inflect
7.
from the cradle to the ~: see cradle