Top Grave Quotes
Grave Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(superl.) Of great weight; heavy; ponderous.
(superl.) Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; -- said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc.
(superl.) Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face.
(superl.) Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key.
(superl.) Slow and solemn in movement.
(n.) To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
(n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
(n.) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
(n.) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
(n.) To entomb; to bury.
(v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
(n.) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction.
Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts you make on earth should be something worthy to improve lives.