Synonyms of the word

grave

• n. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
• n. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
• n. death, destruction.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice…
• adj. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
• adj. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful, sombre.
• adj. Low in pitch, tone etc.
• adj. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
• n. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent.

accent

• n. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in…
• n. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
• n. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent,…
• n. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic…
• n. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular…
• n. (linguistics, sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does…
• n. A word; a significant tone or sound.
• n. (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
• n. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
• n. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third…
• n. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
• n. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
• n. (music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
• n. (music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
• n. (mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes…
• n. (geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in…
• n. (engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10, meaning six feet ten inches.
• n. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail…
• n. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
• n. A distinctive feature or quality.
• n. (archaic) Utterance.
• v. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
• v. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
• v. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

carve

• v. (archaic) To cut.
• v. To cut meat in order to serve it.
• v. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished…
• v. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard…
• v. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
• v. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
• n. (obsolete) A carucate.

critical

• adj. Inclined to find fault or criticize; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.
• adj. Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis or turning point.
• adj. Extremely important.
• adj. Relating to criticism or careful analysis, such as literary or film criticism.
• adj. (medicine) Of a patient condition involving unstable vital signs and a prognosis that predicts the condition…
• adj. Likely to go out of control if disturbed, that is, opposite of stable.
• adj. Of the point (in temperature, reagent concentration etc.) where a nuclear or chemical reaction becomes…
• n. A critical value, factor, etc.
• n. In breakdancing, a kind of airflare move in which the dancer hops from one hand to the other.

dangerous

• adj. Full of danger.
• adj. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
• adj. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
• adj. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
• adj. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.

death

• n. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent…
• n. (often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
• n. (the death) The collapse or end of something.

demise

• n. (law) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the…
• n. Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer…
• n. Death.
• n. The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, law) To give.
• v. (transitive, law) To convey, as by will or lease.
• v. (transitive, law) To transmit by inheritance.
• v. (intransitive, law) To pass by inheritance.
• v. (intransitive) To die.

dying

• adj. Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
• adj. Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
• adj. Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
• n. The process of approaching death; or, less precisely, death itself.
• n. (with "the") Those who are currently expiring, moribund.
• v. present participle of die.
• v. (nonstandard) present participle of dye (Alternative form of dyeing).

engrave

• v. (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or…
• v. (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.
• v. (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.

grievous

• adj. Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
• adj. Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.

heavy

• adj. (of a physical object) Having great weight.
• adj. (of a topic) Serious, somber.
• adj. Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
• adj. (Britain, slang, dated) Good.
• adj. (dated, late 1960s, 1970s, US) Profound.
• adj. (of a rate of flow) High, great.
• adj. (slang) Armed.
• adj. (music) Louder, more distorted.
• adj. (of weather) Hot and humid.
• adj. (of a person) Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
• adj. (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
• adj. Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
• adj. Laden to a great extent.
• adj. Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with…
• adj. Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
• adj. Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
• adj. Not raised or leavened.
• adj. Having much body or strength; said of wines or spirits.
• adj. (obsolete) With child; pregnant.
• adv. heavily.
• adv. (India, colloquial) very.
• n. A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
• n. (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
• n. (aviation) A large multi-engined aircraft.
• v. (often with "up") To make heavier.
• v. To sadden.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) To use power and/or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments…
• adj. Having the heaves.

important

• adj. Having relevant and crucial value.

inscribe

• v. (transitive) To write or cut words onto something, especially a hard surface; to engrave.
• v. (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

life-threatening

• adj. Endangering the continued life of the subject.

place

• n. (physical) An area; somewhere within an area.
• n. A location or position in space.
• n. A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader.
• n. (obsolete) A passage or extract from a book or document.
• n. (obsolete, rhetoric) A topic.
• n. A frame of mind.
• n. (chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.
• n. (social) A responsibility or position in an organization.
• n. (obsolete) A fortified position: a fortress, citadel, or walled town.
• n. Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity.
• n. Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding.
• n. Reception; effect; implying the making room for.
• v. (transitive) To put (an object or person) in a specific location.
• v. (intransitive) To earn a given spot in a competition.
• v. (transitive) To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.
• v. (transitive, passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.
• v. (transitive) To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.
• v. (transitive) To arrange for or to make (a bet).
• v. (transitive) To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.
• v. (sports, transitive) To place-kick (a goal).

scratch

• v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
• v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
• v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
• v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
• v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
• v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
• v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
• v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
• n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
• n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
• n. (sports).
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
• n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
• n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
• n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
• adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
• adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
• adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
• adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
• adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
• adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

sculpt

• v. (transitive) To form by sculpture.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a sculptor.

sculpture

• n. (countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden…
• n. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
• n. (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
• v. To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
• v. To represent something in sculpture.
• v. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

sedate

• adj. in a composed and temperate state.
• v. to tranquilize by giving a sedative; to calm; to soothe; to induce sleep.

serious

• adj. Without humor or expression of happiness; grave in manner or disposition; earnest; solemn.
• adj. Important; weighty; not insignificant.
• adj. Really intending what is said; in earnest; not jocular or deceiving.

severe

• adj. Very bad or intense.
• adj. Strict or harsh.
• adj. Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

sober

• adj. not drunk; not intoxicated.
• adj. not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
• adj. moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
• adj. dull; not bright or colorful.
• adj. subdued; solemn; grave.
• v. (often with up) To make or become sober.
• v. (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.

solemn

• adj. Deeply serious and somber.
• adj. Somberly impressive.
• adj. Performed with great ceremony.
• adj. Sacred.
• adj. Gloomy or sombre.

spot

• n. A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally…
• n. A stain or disfiguring mark.
• n. A pimple, papule or pustule.
• n. A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
• n. (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
• n. A location or area.
• n. A parking space.
• n. (sports) An official determination of placement.
• n. A bright lamp; a spotlight.
• n. (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
• n. Difficult situation; predicament.
• n. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist…
• n. (soccer) Penalty spot.
• n. The act of spotting or noticing something.
• n. A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
• n. A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind…
• n. The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of…
• n. (in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate…
• n. An autosoliton.
• n. (finance) A decimal point; point.
• v. (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
• v. (finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
• v. To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
• v. (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist…
• v. (dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
• v. To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
• v. To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
• v. To place an object at a location indicated by a spot. Notably in billiards or snooker.
• adj. (commerce) Available on the spot; on hand for immediate payment or delivery.

tomb

• n. A small building (or "vault") for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used…
• n. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave.
• n. One who keeps secrets.
• v. (transitive) To bury.

weighty

• adj. heavy (having a lot of weight).
• adj. important; or serious.
• adj. Rigorous; severe; afflictive.