{
    "term": "grave",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a place in the ground where a dead person is buried",
            "sensetop": "in a graveon a grave",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We visited Grandma's grave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "British war graves in France and Belgium"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plague victims were buried in a **mass grave**.",
                    "contextForm": "in a grave"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were flowers on the grave.",
                    "contextForm": "on a grave"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A mass grave has been discovered in a wood outside the village."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His body is buried in an unmarked grave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She puts fresh flowers on her husband's grave every Sunday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Some of the graves have been desecrated by vandals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The body was found in a shallow grave in a nearby wood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The grave was marked by a simple headstone."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The mourners threw flowers into the open grave."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Whenever he goes home he visits his mother's grave."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Religion and festivals", "Life stages"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "shallow", "open"],
                "verb + grave": ["dig", "mark", "desecrate"],
                "preposition": ["beyond the grave", "in a/​the grave", "on a/​the grave"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a way of referring to death or a person’s death",
            "labels": "(usually literary)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Is there life beyond the grave *(= life after death)*?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He followed her to the grave *(= died soon after her)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She smoked herself into an early grave *(= died young as a result of smoking)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He rescued her from a watery grave (= from drowning)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'll be in my grave by the time that happens!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The old lady still influences the family from beyond the grave."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "shallow", "open"],
                "verb + grave": ["dig", "mark", "desecrate"],
                "preposition": ["beyond the grave", "in a/​the grave", "on a/​the grave"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to do something that will have very harmful results for you",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a way of referring to the whole of a person’s life, from birth until death",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be so old or ill that you are not likely to live much longer",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Health problems"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "likely to be very shocked or angry",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "My father would turn in his grave if he knew."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡreɪv/",
                "audio": "gr/grave/grave__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɡreɪv/",
                "audio": "gr/grave/grave__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English græf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch graf and German Grab. The adjective dates from late 15th cent. (originally of a wound in the sense ‘severe, serious’): from Old French grave or Latin gravis ‘heavy, serious’."
}