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graves

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for graves.

Editorial note

The legacy is really mostly a brief interval of charred cities and libraries, and enormous mass graves.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

An English surname from Middle English derived from Grave.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of graves gathered in one view.

noun

An English surname from Middle English derived from Grave.

noun

A region close to Bordeaux in south-western France.

noun

The dry white wine produced in this region.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for graves.

noun

An English surname from Middle English derived from Grave.

noun

A region close to Bordeaux in south-western France.

noun

The dry white wine produced in this region.

noun

An unincorporated community in Terrell County, Georgia, United States, derived from the surname.

Example sentences

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The legacy is really mostly a brief interval of charred cities and libraries, and enormous mass graves.

2

There were so many corpses they had to exhume their mass graves and burn bodies on pyres.

3

Ales Graves [2] has done a huge amount of work in sequence modeling for classification and generation.

4

Wealthy people could afford so-called mortsafes and patent coffins: specially designed devices meant to prevent resurrectionists from breaking into their graves.

5

The graves of the untold millions (billions?) of systems compromised by malware injected through statically linked zlib and libjpeg blobs grow restless...

6

Some transit camps were recently discovered near the border with Malaysia containing mass graves.

7

Our Mozarts are being left to die in pauper graves while Biebers are inundated in funding to compose their next masterpiece called 'Yo!'.

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Interesting to see that Ryan Graves replied to one of the comments.

9

In 2010 there were 3 previously unknown mass graves discovered.

10

There are still cemeteries where the graves are unknown as the bodies and headstones were thrown aside when union troops dug up corpses to rob jewelry.

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I really don't see how digging up graves is comparable to killing things.

12

In Normandy is a cemetery with, as I recall from the Nova program, 9000 graves of US soldiers who fought for our freedom.

Quote examples

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If you can locate a copy of it, Robert Graves's essay "Lars Porsena, or the Future of Swearing" is worth a read.

2

"sacrifice the idea that one will ever know what it is all about and adjust to this as the existential reality of existence" Graves had been teaching intro to psych and presenting the work of Skinner, Freud, and Rogers and others.

Proper noun examples

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Graves did some really interesting psychology research by asking undergrads to describe the psychology of a healthy, mature adult human.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use graves in a sentence?

The legacy is really mostly a brief interval of charred cities and libraries, and enormous mass graves.

What does graves mean?

An English surname from Middle English derived from Grave.

What part of speech is graves?

graves is commonly used as noun.