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[greyv] 
–noun
—Idioms| 1. | an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body. |
| 2. | any place of interment; a tomb or sepulcher: a watery grave. |
| 3. | any place that becomes the receptacle of what is dead, lost, or past: the grave of unfulfilled ambitions. |
| 4. | death: O grave, where is thy victory? |
| 5. | have one foot in the grave, to be so frail, sick, or old that death appears imminent: It was a shock to see my uncle looking as if he had one foot in the grave. |
| 6. | make (one) turn or turn over in one's grave, to do something to which a specified dead person would have objected bitterly: This production of Hamlet is enough to make Shakespeare turn in his grave. |
Related forms:
graveless, adjective
gravelike, adjective
graveward, gravewards, adverb, adjective
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Graveless
Grave"less\, a. Without a grave; unburied.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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