All 8 Uses of
grave
in
Sea Wolf
- 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
- 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 29
- And that it was grave, I instanced his statement that he intended to stay and die on Endeavour Island.†
Chpt 36
- "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 37
- It was like a message from the night of the grave; for this man's body had become his mausoleum.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(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