grave | (adjective) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm | Synonyms: dangerous, grievous, life-threatening, serious, severe |
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(adjective) of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought | Synonyms: grievous, heavy, weighty |
(adjective) dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises | Synonyms: sedate, sober, solemn |
(noun) a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) | Synonyms: tomb |
(noun) a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: grave accent |
(noun) death of a person | - |
(verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, inscribe, scratch |
(verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: sculpt, sculpture |
gravedigger | (noun) a person who earns a living by digging graves | - |
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gravel | (noun) rock fragments and pebbles | Synonyms: crushed rock |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) cover with gravel | - |
(verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
gravelly | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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(adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: pebbly, shingly |
gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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gravely | (adverb) in a grave and sober manner | Synonyms: soberly, staidly |
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(adverb) to a severe or serious degree | Synonyms: badly, seriously, severely |
graven | (adjective) cut or impressed into a surface | Synonyms: engraved, etched, incised, inscribed |
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(adjective) cut into a desired shape | Synonyms: sculpted, sculptured |
graveness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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(noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
gravestone | (noun) a stone that is used to mark a grave | Synonyms: headstone, tombstone |
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graveyard | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, cemetery, memorial park, necropolis |
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gravid | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, enceinte, expectant, great, heavy, large, with child |
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gravida | (noun) a pregnant woman | - |
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(noun) the number of the pregnancy that a woman is in | - |
gravidation | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidity, gravidness |
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gravidity | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidness |
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gravidness | (noun) technical terms for pregnancy | Synonyms: gravidation, gravidity |
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gravimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for determining the specific gravity of a liquid or solid | Synonyms: hydrometer |
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(noun) a measuring instrument for measuring variations in the gravitational field of the earth | Synonyms: gravity meter |
gravimetric | (adjective) of or relating to hydrometry | Synonyms: hydrometric |
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gravimetry | (noun) the measurement of specific gravity | Synonyms: hydrometry |
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gravitas | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, lordliness |
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gravitate | (verb) move due to the pull of gravitation | - |
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(verb) be attracted to | - |
(verb) move toward | - |
gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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(noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
gravitational | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitative |
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gravitationally | (adverb) with respect to gravitation | - |
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gravitative | (adjective) of or relating to or caused by gravitation | Synonyms: gravitational |
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graviton | (noun) a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles | - |
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gravity | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: graveness, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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(noun) a solemn and dignified feeling | Synonyms: solemnity |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitation, gravitational attraction, gravitational force |
gravure | (noun) the act of intaglio printing | - |
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(noun) an intaglio print produced by gravure | Synonyms: heliogravure, photogravure |
(noun) a printing plate used in the process of gravure | - |
(noun) a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print | Synonyms: intaglio, intaglio printing |
gravy | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, godsend, gold rush, manna from heaven, windfall |
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(noun) the seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added | Synonyms: pan gravy |
(noun) a sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats | - |