grave1
noun/ɡreɪv/
Слово англійською: grave
Переклад grave українською: моги́ла, поховання, управитель
Детальний опис
- a place in the ground where a dead person is buried
- We visited Grandma's grave.
- British war graves in France and Belgium
- in a grave The plague victims were buried in a mass grave.
- on a grave There were flowers on the grave.
- [singular] (often the grave)(usually literary) a way of referring to death or a person’s death
- Is there life beyond the grave (= life after death)?
- He followed her to the grave (= died soon after her).
- She smoked herself into an early grave (= died young as a result of smoking).
Word OriginOld English græf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch graf and German Grab. The adjective dates from late 15th cent. (originally of a wound in the sense ‘severe, serious’): from Old French grave or Latin gravis ‘heavy, serious’.
Idioms
dig your own grave | dig a grave for yourself
- to do something that will have very harmful results for you
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- ashes
- cemetery
- coffin
- cremation
- die
- funeral
- grave
- hearse
- morgue
- mourn
from the cradle to the grave
- a way of referring to the whole of a person’s life, from birth until death
have one foot in the grave
- (informal) to be so old or ill that you are not likely to live much longerTopics Health problemsc2
turn in his/her grave (British English)
(North American English also roll (over) in his/her grave)
- (of a person who is dead) likely to be very shocked or angry
- My father would turn in his grave if he knew.