Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun graves

1 sense of graves

Sense 1
Graves, Robert Graves, Robert Ranke Graves -- (English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985))
       INSTANCE OF=> writer, author -- (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun grave

3 senses of grave

Sense 1
grave -- (death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave")
       => death, dying, demise -- (the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes")

Sense 2
grave, tomb -- (a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave")
       => topographic point, place, spot -- (a point located with respect to surface features of some region; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet")

Sense 3
grave accent, grave -- (a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation)
       => accent, accent mark -- (a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb grave

2 senses of grave

Sense 1
sculpt, sculpture, grave -- (shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband")
       => carve -- (form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice")

Sense 2
scratch, engrave, grave, inscribe -- (carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree")
       => carve, chip at -- (engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one's name into the bark")