<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body.</li><li>any place of interment; a tomb or sepulcher: a watery grave.</li><li>any place that becomes the receptacle of what is dead, lost, or past: the grave of unfulfilled ambitions.</li><li>death: O grave, where is thy victory?</li></ul>