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grave(3) (iou)



grave noun1.

A place of burial; an excavation made to receive a corpse; the monument etc. raised over it. Formerly also, a mausoleum or the like. OE.
bloody grave: see BLOODY adjective & adverb. dig the grave of fig. cause the downfall of. have one foot in the grave: see FOOT noun. secret as the grave kept as a close secret. someone walking on my grave an explanation of an otherwise unaccountable shivering. turn in one's grave (of a deceased person) supposedly react thus through extreme outrage at an action or an event. watery grave: see WATERY 7.
H. Asquith A skull, torn out of the graves nearby. M. Mitchell The new grave lying by the three short mounds of her little brothers.
b. A grave-mound. M19.
The condition or state of being buried; the state of being dead; death. LME.
on this side of the grave, on this side the grave: see SIDE noun.
Swift I shall carry the Mark to my Grave. A. Mason Those who put their faith in Joshua's return from the grave would themselves survive death.
An excavation of any kind; a pit, a trench. Now chiefly Scot. E16.
Anything that is, or may become, a receptacle for what is dead. Freq. with specifying word. M16.
grave of reputations a place where many reputations have been lost. White man's grave: see WHITE adjective.
C. Kingsley They had only just escaped a watery grave.
Comb.: grave-cloth a pall; grave-clothes the clothes or wrappings in which a corpse is buried; gravedigger (a) a person who digs graves, esp. as a form of Employment (lit. & fig.); (b) colloq. an insect that buries prey or carrion in the ground as Food for its larvae; esp. a burying-beetle; grave-goods (esp. valuable) objects deposited with corpses in ancient graves; grave-mound a hillock constructed over the site of an interment; graveside the edge of a grave; the ground immediately adjacent to a grave; gravestone a stone placed at the mouth of a tomb or over a grave; esp. an inscribed headstone; grave-trap Theatrical a trapdoor sited approximately in the centre of the stage.
graveless adjective E17.
graveward adjective & adverb (leading) towards the grave M19.
gravewards adverb graveward L19.

Factor return (finance)


The return attributable to a particular common factor.