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as in tombs
a final resting place for a dead person
the forlorn boy put flowers on his mother's grave
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as in deaths
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities
a rock star who found his early grave in a plane crash
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Recent Examples of graves
Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.
—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
Gein was a notorious murderer in the 1950s who not only went on a killing spree but also exhumed graves to use human remains to craft household items and clothing.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Charlie Hunnam will play the notorious murderer who, among other things, fashioned trinkets and furniture out of the corpses from robbed graves.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Insert shortbread or vanilla cookies in the cookie dirt to look like graves, then arrange gummy worms, sprinkles, and pumpkin candies around to complete the scene.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025
More than a dozen graves have been discovered, with the deceased buried in a fetal position with their arms crossed on their chests, experts said in the release.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Tensions rise as their personal conflicts unfold, while the town grows increasingly hostile toward them and the idea of opening multiple graves at once.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
Ukrainian flags fly at the cemetery, on the southern outskirts of Kharkiv, marking the graves of soldiers killed in the war.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
Tyler is visiting the graves of his parents when Capri interrupts.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.
—Seema Jilani
august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
Gein was a notorious murderer in the 1950s who not only went on a killing spree but also exhumed graves to use human remains to craft household items and clothing.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Charlie Hunnam will play the notorious murderer who, among other things, fashioned trinkets and furniture out of the corpses from robbed graves.
—Lucy Ford, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Insert shortbread or vanilla cookies in the cookie dirt to look like graves, then arrange gummy worms, sprinkles, and pumpkin candies around to complete the scene.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025
More than a dozen graves have been discovered, with the deceased buried in a fetal position with their arms crossed on their chests, experts said in the release.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Tensions rise as their personal conflicts unfold, while the town grows increasingly hostile toward them and the idea of opening multiple graves at once.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
Ukrainian flags fly at the cemetery, on the southern outskirts of Kharkiv, marking the graves of soldiers killed in the war.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 15 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for graves
Noun
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Before the most recent excavation, archaeologists had found 17 of these tombs.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Roskilde’s stately cathedral stands solemn and proud—its royal tombs steeped in centuries of candlelit reverence—while chalk-white Møns Klint plunges into the deep Baltic blue, where fossil hunters comb the shore and peregrine falcons wheel overhead.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Michelle Kowalski, an analyst who has since departed the agency, was instructed to take one of the DOGE people, Cole Killian, through earnings data and historical records to analyze the cases of extremely old people whose deaths had not been recorded in Social Security data.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
8 Sep. 2025
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Among those fentanyl deaths were 20 young children — ages 4 and under — and seven of those babies and toddlers were from Jackson County.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Kirby beautifully etches these notions into Miss Black America.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Their immigration statuses — and fates — diverge in dramatic ways that make their connection complicated.—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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If her best friend, Enid (Emma Myers), pleads with her to consider the fates of her fellow students before running off to play detective, Wednesday will certainly ignore her.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The mission, the fourth of 2025, would also be Starship's first flight since May 27 amid a year plagued by explosive demises for the vehicle.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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But a good time in enviable vacation spots is guaranteed, with ghoulish demises for many principal figures here served up like caviar on sashimi.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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The recent, tragic passings of Benjamin Kelly, James Maldonado, Christian Collado, and now another man — all in one month — are not isolated incidents.—
Darren Mack,
New York Daily News,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Graves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graves. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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