Graven

Definition

grave 1 / greÇv / adj ( -r, -st ) ၁။ ( fml ) ေလးနက္ေသာ။ အေရးႀကီးေသာ။ စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ This could have grave consequences. ❍ a grave mistake/ error ❍ grave news/ danger ❍ have grave doubts about sth ❍ There is a grave risk of flooding. ❍ He is in a grave condition and needs immediate medical treatment. ၂။ ေလးေဆးတည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ He looked grave. 'Is there anything wrong?' I asked. ❏ gravely adv စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္။ ေလးနက္စြာ။ ေလးေဆး တည္ၿငိမ္စြာ။ She is gravely ill. ❍ If you think that, you are gravely mistaken. ❍ ‘It's a confidential matter,’ he said gravely. grave 2 / greÇv / n ၁။ [C] သခ်ဳႋင္းေျမပံု။ အုတ္ဂူ။ strewing flowers on her grave ❍ visit sb's grave. ၂။ (often the grave ) [sing] ( rhet ) ေသျခင္း။ သခ်ဳႋင္း။ Is there life beyond the grave (ie after death)? ❍ follow sb to the grave (ie die soon after them) ❍ go to an early grave (ie die young) ❍ He took his secret to the grave (ie died without revealing it). ❏ turn in one's grave [ IDM ] ( saying ) ေသရာက ေဒါသ တႏံု႔ႏံု႔ ျဖစ္သည္။ His grandfather must be turning in his grave at the way he's running the company. grave 3 / grɑ:v / (also grave accent) n အသံေလးေလး ထြက္ရန္ သရအကၡရာေပၚတင္ ျပေသာ () သဲေကၤတ။

Examples

1. He’s never even visited his mother’s grave.
2. His secret will go with me to the grave (=I will die without telling anyone).
3. [beyond the grave] : It seemed to him like a voice from beyond the grave (=the voice of a dead person).