- 1a place in the ground where a dead person is buried We visited Grandma's grave. There were flowers on the grave.
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- 2[singular] the grave (usually literary) death; a person's death Is there life beyond the grave (= life after death)? He followed her to the grave (= died soon after her). She smoked herself into an early grave (= died young as a result of smoking). Idioms
to do something that will have very harmful results for you
a way of referring to the whole of a person's life, from birth until death
to be so old or sick that you are not likely to live much longer
(of a person who is dead) likely to be very shocked or angry My father would turn over in his grave if he knew.
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