Synonyms of graves

graves 1 of 2

noun

plural of grave

1

as in tombs

a final resting place for a dead person

the forlorn boy put flowers on his mother's grave

Synonyms & Similar Words

• tombs
• cemeteries
• burials
• sepulchres
• churchyards
• graveyards
• mausoleums
• vaults
• crypts
• catacombs
• columbaria
• sepultures
• tumuli
• barrows
• mounds
• charnels
• potter's fields

2

as in deaths

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

a rock star who found his early grave in a plane crash

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deaths
• fates
• demises
• passings
• curtains
• deceases
• dooms
• passages
• sleeps
• dissolutions
• suicides
• exits
• expirations
• ends
• ruins
• fatalities
• assassinations
• casualties
• great divides
• quietuses
• destructions
• martyrdoms
• killings
• endings
• expiries
• executions
• massacres
• exterminations
• annihilations
• slaughters
• self-slaughters
• self-murders
• self-destructions

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• births
• lives
• existences
• nativities
• creations
• rises
• originations
• geneses

graves

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of grave

as in etches

to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface

the doomed climber graved his initials into the rock face

Synonyms & Similar Words

• etches
• engraves
• inscribes
• traces
• sculpts
• carves
• incises
• sculptures
• insculps
• chisels
• indents
• grooves
• notches
• affixes
• scores
• chases
• impresses

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of graves

Noun

Together, the three graves belonged to pets named Hollie, Dollie and Carlie. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 24 July 2026

Ask for a map at the gate to find the graves and pay your respects. — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2026

Baldwin is an amateur genealogist who has spent the last five years researching the identities of the roughly 2,200 people who are buried at Blake Street Cemetery, the vast majority of them in graves marked only with numbers. — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026

To Hashesh, the findings defy what has historically been another single interpretation about weapons in female graves. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 17 July 2026

The details of the bodies are documented and the graves numbered so that family members can return and reclaim them. — Bilal Shbeir, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

The graves are arranged on terraces identified with letters and demarcated with white stones to distinguish them from the rest of the cemetery. — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 7 July 2026

Journal contributor Catherine Messier has a look at five significant Revolutionary War leaders from Rhode Island, as well as how to visit their graves. — Will Richmond, The Providence Journal, 3 July 2026

The ongoing concerns that a Gwinnett County church's fence may have been installed over graves have continued, with an archaeologist probing the ground on Tuesday to see what lies beneath. — Daniel Wilkerson, CBS News, 30 June 2026

Verb

Aprendi no que consiste o verdadeiro alimento há muitos anos, quando tive problemas estomacais tão graves que só conseguia reter os alimentos mais básicos. — Blithe Holcomb Hogan, Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2026

Las acciones de Google son especialmente insensibles y graves ante el cierre administrativo temporal del gobierno (shutdown), ignorando las peticiones de funcionarios gubernamentales y organizaciones hispanas que les solicitaron mantener la programación de Univision en el paquete principal. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025