grave
/ɡɹeɪv/ noun B1- An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- Any place of interment.
- Any place containing one or more corpses.
- Death, destruction.
- Deceased people; the dead.
Plural graves
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“I did; but his face would become very grave and he would shake his head.
Holmes’s face was very white and grave.
I ain’t afeared of anything on this side o’ the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o’ the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.
Holmes looked grave.
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