All 8 Uses of
grave
in
Sea Wolf
- She was in very good spirits, however, and made quite merry in accepting our plight as a grave one.
Chpt 29 *grave = serious and solemn
- And it was required of me that this should be the gravest of responsibilities, for she was the one woman in the world—the one small woman, as I loved to think of her.†
Chpt 29gravest = most important or most serious
- "When I dismantled my old Pantheon and cast out Napoleon and Caesar and their fellows, I straightway erected a new Pantheon," she answered gravely, "and the first I installed as Dr. Jordan."†
Chpt 37gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- He preferred the vanity and vexation to the silence and unmovableness of the grave.†
Chpt 11
- I think you can now fire your father's legs back into the grave to him.†
Chpt 16
- "It does very well, it seems, though I am not versed in things nautical," she said, nodding her head with grave approval at my steering contrivance.†
Chpt 27
- And that it was grave, I instanced his statement that he intended to stay and die on Endeavour Island.†
Chpt 36 *
- It was like a message from the night of the grave; for this man's body had become his mausoleum.†
Chpt 37
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 rare to warrant focus) 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