Difference between Grave and Engrave

What is the difference between Grave and Engrave?

Grave as a verb is to dig. chaucer. while Engrave as a verb is to carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

Grave

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An accent used in French, Italian and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: death; destruction.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of great weight; heavy; ponderous. Of importance; momentous; weighty; influential; sedate; serious; said of character, relations, etc.; as, grave deportment, character, influence, etc. Not light or gay; solemn; sober; plain; as, a grave color; a grave face. Not acute or sharp; low; deep; -- said of sound; as, a grave note or key. Slow and solemn in movement.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To dig. Chaucer. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture; as, to grave an image. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly. To entomb; to bury. —Chaucer. To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

Example sentence: Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Engrave

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.To carve (something) into a material.To put in a grave, to bury.

We hope you now know whether to use Grave or Engrave in your sentence.

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