grave
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5.4
- noun
- /ɡreɪv/
:
tumba
- Well, you'll visit my grave one day and tell me how right I was.
- cradle to grave
- back from the grave
Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.
- Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.
- I would end up in jail, reform school or the grave.
- But yet these nonviolent crimes send black men to their graves.
- And that's what drives people to a a slow and steady grave.
- So we've got what secret is your friendship group taken to the grave?
- He, he took heartbreak to his grave.
- He in that window may actually be talking beyond the grave.
- I certainly, I think that inevitably your beliefs about is there anything beyond the grave?
- And just being on the set with him is is an experience I'll take with me to my grave.
- Some people go to the grave never facing their issues, never healing.
- And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.
Examples
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That the grave is not the end.
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Some people go to the grave never facing their issues, never healing.
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One of them is I would like to visit the grave of my mother who died on Christmas Day last year.
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We, we came to you because you could have brought us to life, they say, and now we have to go to the grave together.
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"When I go to my grave, my head will be high."
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All the love he had was in the grave with his wife.
Fiction book (1991) -
Half an hour ago, you thought Madeleine was trying to reach out to you from the grave.
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All things have rest and ripened toward the grave in silence.
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All members of our society, from cradle to grave, stand to benefit from being musically involved.
Academic text (2000) -
She often visits her mother's grave to honor her memory and reflect on her life.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
1
8.6
To think a dead person is very upset because something goes against what they cared about
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
The figurative grave meaning 'death' comes from the burial grave, the place where someone is buried. So saying someone took a secret to the grave means they kept it until death.