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Synonyms for grave:


adj. serious; gloomy

dignified
dull
earnest
heavy
muted
quiet
sage
sedate
sober
subdued
deadpan
dour
grim
grim-faced
leaden
long-faced
meaningful
no-nonsense
ponderous
sad
saturnine
solemn
somber
staid
thoughtful
unsmiling

adj. crucial, dangerous

acute
fell
heavy
killing
major
pressing
threatening
afflictive
consequential
critical
deadly
destructive
dire
exigent
fatal
grievous
hazardous
important
life-and-death
momentous
ominous
perilous
serious
severe
significant
ugly
urgent
vital
weighty

noun burial place

catacomb
crypt
mausoleum
mound
sepulcher
shrine
tomb
vault

Examples of uses:

The marble slab of a sepulcher proves the existence of the grave, but not of what lies beyond the grave, a world inhabited by an incalculable number of anonymous beings.
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Takes years of xperience to know which stiffs got the gold, which grave's warm and which grave's cold.
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Charles, Charles, I have grave misgivings, grave misgivings.
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Unless it was the grave robber from beyond the grave.
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He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead, unaware that her grave, was his mother's flower bed.
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You'll either end up alone in a single grave or in a mass grave.
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We would have grave, grave concerns about appointing such a man our next Secretary of State.
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Might put me in the grave, but at least I'm gonna be in the grave smiling'.
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It's in Corey's grave. Alden has hidden it in Corey's grave.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Glue this pin to the inside of the coffin lid. For grave robbers. For grave robbers?
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf

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