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grave Spanish-English

seriously ill

está afectado de una grave enfermedad in afectado Spanish-English

he is suffering from a serious disease

no se asuste, no es nada grave in asustar Spanish-English

there's no need to worry, it's nothing serious

estamos frente a un grave problema in frente Spanish-English

we are faced with a serious problem

grave2 English-Spanish

tumba, sepultura

grave1 British & World English

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

grave2 British & World English

giving cause for alarm; serious

grave3 British & World English

engrave (an inscription or image) on a surface

grave4 British & World English

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

grave5 British & World English

(as a direction) slowly; with solemnity

grave French-English

serious

grave English-French

tombe f

the grave in grave1 British & World English

used as an allusive term for death

war grave British & World English

a grave of a member of the armed forces who has died on active service, especially one in a special cemetery that serves as a monument

grave goods British & World English

utilitarian and valuable objects deposited with bodies in prehistoric and ancient graves, probably intended for use in the afterlife

shaft grave British & World English

a type of grave found in late Bronze Age Greece and Crete in which the burial chamber is approached by a vertical shaft sometimes lined with stones and roofed over with beams

mass grave English-French

charnier m

mass grave English-Italian

fossa f comune

gallery grave British & World English

an underground megalithic burial chamber which may be divided into sections but has no separate entrance passage

grave accent British & World English

a mark (`) placed over a vowel in some languages to indicate a feature such as altered sound quality, vowel length, or intonation

passage grave British & World English

a prehistoric megalithic burial chamber of a type found chiefly in western Europe, with a passage leading to the exterior. Passage graves were originally covered by a mound, which in many cases has disappeared, and most date from the Neolithic period

an early grave in early British & World English

a premature or untimely death

dig one's own grave in grave1 British & World English

do something foolish which causes one’s downfall

turn North American also roll over or turn over in one's grave in grave1 British & World English

used to express the opinion that something would have caused anger or distress in someone who is now dead

accento grave Italian-English

grave [accent]

have one foot in the grave in foot British & World English

be near death through old age or illness

gravedigger British & World English

a person who digs graves

ferito grave in ferito Italian-English

seriously injured person

l'heure est grave in heure French-English

the situation is serious