a hole dug in the ground to receive a coffin or dead body, typically marked by a stone or mound

the coffin was lowered into the grave

a mass grave

giving cause for alarm; serious

a matter of grave concern

serious or solemn in manner or appearance

his face was grave

engrave (an inscription or image) on a surface

marble graved with exquisite flower, human and animal forms

clean (a ship's bottom) by burning off the accretions and then tarring it

they graved the ship there and remained 26 days

(as a direction) slowly; with solemnity

the piece begins with four bars which are to be played grave and forte

performed in a slow and solemn way

the grave sections of the first movement