Le mot anglais avancé du jour

Définitions

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grave
1. adj. Grave, sérieux.
2. n. Tombe (lieu où l'on enterre une personne morte).
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grave
1. n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
2. n. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
3. n. (by extension) Death, destruction.
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
5. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
6. v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
to grave an image
7. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
9. v. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
10. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
11. adj. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
12. adj. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
13. adj. Low in pitch, tone etc.
14. adj. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
15. n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).
16. n. (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.

Prononciation

Exemples de phrases

We visited our father's grave.      Nous nous sommes rendus à la tombe de notre père. He was a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very formal.      C’était un grand garçon un peu lourd de 25 ans, à l’air grave et compassé et aux manières cérémonieuses. I feel like someone just walked over my grave.      J'ai l'impression que quelqu’un venait de marcher sur ma tombe. The world economy is in grave danger.      L'économie mondiale est en danger. I visited my father's grave.      Je suis allé sur la tombe de mon père.

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