Grave ɡreɪv Flowers Life Died Noun Bre Visited

• we visited grandma's grave.
• there were flowers on the grave.
• is there life beyond the grave (= life after death)?
• he followed her to the grave (= died soon after her).

grave

1. a place in the ground where a dead person is buried
• We visited Grandma's grave.
• There were flowers on the grave.
2. death; a person’s death
• Is there life beyond the grave (= life after death)?
• He followed her to the grave (= died soon after her).
• She smoked herself into an early grave (= died young as a result of smoking).
3. to do something that will have very harmful results for you
4. a way of referring to the whole of a person’s life, from birth until death
5. to be so old or ill/sick that you are not likely to live much longer
• See related entries: Being ill
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/being_ill/grave_2
6. likely to be very shocked or angry
• My father would turn in his grave if he knew.

Extra Examples

• A mass grave has been discovered in a wood outside the village.
• A mass grave has been discovered outside the town.
• He rescued her from a watery grave.
• His body is buried in an unmarked grave.
• I’ll be in my grave by the time that happens!
• She puts fresh flowers on her husband’s grave every Sunday.
• She smoked herself into an early grave= died young as a result of smoking.
• Some of the graves have been desecrated by vandals.
• The body was found in a shallow grave in a nearby wood.
• The grave was marked by a simple headstone.
• The mourners threw flowers into the open grave.
• The old lady still influences the family from beyond the grave.
• Whenever he goes home he visits his mother’s grave.

Word Origin

• Old English græf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch graf and German Grab. The adjective dates from late 15th cent. (originally of a wound in the sense ‘severe, serious’): from Old French grave or Latin gravis ‘heavy, serious’.