All 13 Uses
grave
in
The Kite Runner
(Edited)
- "You should know something about me, Hazara," Assef said gravely.
p. 42.9gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- He said this gravely, like he'd disclosed to me that she had breast cancer.
p. 141.9gravely = solemnly (in a very serious manner)
- Baba asked Dr. Amani for a prognosis. Dr. Amani bit his lip, used the word "grave." "There is chemotherapy, of course," he said. "But it would only be palliative."
p. 156.1grave = very serious
- Because I had rid her heart of its gravest malady.
p. 178.3gravest = most serious
- "What I'm asking from you is to grant an old man his dying wish," he said gravely.
p. 221.7 *gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
- "Do you want to stay?" Farid said gravely.
p. 269.4
- "Absolutely nobody," he said gravely, swinging his index finger the same way Armand had.
p. 309.1
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- For a few weeks, I preoccupied myself with gravity and momentum, atoms and cells, the Anglo-Afghan wars, instead of thinking about Hassan and what had happened to him.
p. 91.1gravity = the force that makes things fall
- I watched them toss the first shovelful of dirt into the grave.
p. 175.3grave = burial spot
- We sat on a bench and watched an elderly couple kneeling beside a grave a few rows away and placing a bouquet of daisies by the headstone.
p. 175.9
- Baba took his memories of her to the grave with him.
p. 250.3grave = time when buried
- "He gets caught, they'll give him a flogging that will waken his father in the grave," Farid muttered.
p. 268.4 *grave = burial spot
- That, I'll take to my grave: I was on the ground laughing, Assef straddling my chest, his face a mask of lunacy, framed by snarls of his hair swaying inches from my face.
p. 289.8grave = time when buried
Definitions:
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(1)
(grave as in: Her manner was grave.) serious and/or solemnThe exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner
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(2)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) Better known meanings of grave and gravity:Less common meanings of grave:
- grave -- a place where a dead body is buried
- gravity -- in the sense of physics to refer to the force of attraction between all masses in the universe--especially the force that causes things to fall toward the earth
- death -- as in "A message from beyond the grave."
- describing a color as dark
- to sculpt with a chisel
- to clean and coat the bottom of a wooden ship with pitch
- grave accent -- a punctuation mark (`) that is used in some non-English languages, and that is placed over some letters of the alphabet to tell how they are pronounced.
- grave musical direction -- in a slow and solemn manner