Thesaurus
grave
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of GRAVE
1
a final resting place for a dead person <the forlorn boy put flowers on his mother's grave>
Related Words catacomb, charnel (also charnel house), columbarium, crypt, mausoleum, vault; cemetery, churchyard, graveyard, potter's field; barrow, mound, tumulus
2
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities <a rock star who found his early grave in a plane crash>
Synonyms curtains, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep
Related Words casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin; assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter
3
the state of being dead <a terrible fear of the grave>
Related Words mortality
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