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noun/ɡrɑːv/
/ɡrɑːv/
(also grave accent)
- a mark placed over a vowel in some languages to show how it should be pronounced, as over the e in the French word père compare acute accent, circumflex, tilde, umlautTopics Languagec2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- deep
- shallow
- open
- …
- dig
- mark
- desecrate
- …
- beyond the grave
- in a/the grave
- on a/the grave
- …
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