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grave
adjective as in serious; gloomy
adjective as in crucial, dangerous
noun as in burial place
Example Sentences
Toyah Cordingley was "repeatedly" stabbed with a sharp object and put in a shallow sandy grave with "little or no hope of surviving", the jury has heard.
Cato correctly identified excessive personal ambition as the gravest threat to the Republic, but Mr. Hoyos’s account suggests he badly misjudged his enemy.
A week ago, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi suggested that a Chinese push to seize Taiwan would represent such a grave threat to Japan that it could be dragged into a war.
“Life is not a continuous line from the cradle to the grave,” as we read in “Consider the Consequences,” but instead a convoluted series of choices and refusals.
"The 27th Constitutional Amendment stands as a grave assault on the Constitution of Pakistan," one of them, Mansoor Ali Shah, wrote in his resignation letter.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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