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graver; gravest
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a
: meriting serious consideration : important
c
: significantly serious : considerable, great
d
obsolete
: authoritative, weighty
gravely
adverb
graveness
noun
: a grave accent ` used to show that a vowel is pronounced with a fall of pitch (as in ancient Greek), that a vowel has a certain quality (such as è in French), that a final e is stressed and close and that a final o is stressed and low (as in Italian), that a syllable has a degree of stress between maximum and minimum (as in phonetic transcription), or that the e of the English ending -ed is to be pronounced (as in "this cursèd day")
grave
4 of 6adverb or adjective
gra·ve
ˈgrä-(ˌ)vā
: slowly and solemnly
—used as a direction in music
graved; graven
ˈgrā-vən
or graved; graving
graved; graving
: to clean and pay with pitch
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