Grave in spanish
pronunciation: tumbɑ part of speech: adjective, noun
grave [graver -comp., gravest -sup.]1 = grave, serio, solemne. [Pincha en o en para ver otros adjetivos cuyo grados comparativos y superlativos se formas añadiendo "-er" o "-est" (o sus variantes "-r" o "-st") al final]
Example: I believe that literature is certainly in one sense 'play' -- grave and absorbed play.more:
» grave error = error grave, grave error.
Example: In retrospect, this was a grave error -- my attitude in school was always to put things off to the last minute.» grave implication = grave implicación.
Example: For the first time I started to 'join the dots' about the grave implications for the planet and humanity of how modern food is produced.grave2 = acento grave.
Example: The problem here is how to file words which include letters with accents or other modifications (eg the acute, grave or circumflex in French, or the umlaut in German).more:
» grave accent = acento grave.
Example: The problem here is how to file words which include letters with accents or other modifications (eg the acute, grave or circumflex in French, or the umlaut in German).grave3 = tumba, sepultura.
Example: From a tiny fragment of the page of a Bible found in the grave of an Indian girl buried in the 17th century, it was possible to discover the particular edition of the Bible that it came from.more:
» dig + Posesivo + own grave = cavar + Posesivo + propia tumba.
Example: The message was unmistakable: by blowing the whistle on union corruption she was digging her own grave.» from the cradle to the grave = toda la vida.
Example: The article carries the title 'From the cradle to the grave'.» go down into + Posesivo + grave = descender a la tumba.
Example: I, going down into my grave, with my crime unpunished and unatoned, see what no guiltless minds can discern.» grave digger [gravedigger] = enterrador, sepulturero.
Example: The grave digger became so conscience-smitten for not filling his agreement that he buried the money he had received for the work.» grave robber = profanador de tumbas, saqueador de tumbas.
Example: By the close of the 18th century, grave robbing was a common practice in Britain and the terms used describe these men included body snatchers and grave robbers.» grave robbing = profanación de tumbas, saqueo de tumbas.
Example: By the close of the 18th century, grave robbing was a common practice in Britain and the terms used describe these men included body snatchers and grave robbers.» gravestone = lápìda.
Example: He couldn't understand why life had again dealt him a bad hand, threw him a curved ball -- why someone like her was now a mere name on a gravestone.» have + one foot in the grave = tener un pie en la tumba, estar con un pie en la tumba, tener un pie en el hoyo, estar con un pie en el hoyo.
Example: To be a pregnant woman in Africa is to have one foot in the grave.» mass grave = fosa común.
Example: This article describes a human rights investigation designed to identify bodies exhumed from mass graves in Bosnia.» return from + the grave = regresar de la tumba, resucitar de entre los muertos.
Example: Based on a comic book, Hex is a glowering gunslinger who returns from the grave to avenge the man who slaughtered his family and left him for dead.» rob + a grave = profanar una tumba.
Example: A newlywed couple spent their honeymoon behind bars for allegedly robbing graves.» roll over in + Posesivo + grave = revolcarse en + Posesivo + tumba, revolverse en + Posesivo + tumba.
Example: Glo would be rolling over in her grave if she knew what we are doing to her house.» spin in + Posesivo + grave = revolcarse en + Posesivo + tumba, revolverse en + Posesivo + tumba.
Example: The rationale is that Renoir would probably spin wildly in his grave at the notion that a black and white photographic reproduction of one of his colored paintings was in any sense his responsibility.» turn in + Posesivo + grave = revolcarse en + Posesivo + tumba, revolverse en + Posesivo + tumba.
Example: She'd be turning in her grave, she would, if she knew what he did after she'd gone.