graves
Holes for coffins
Graves are holes dug in the earth for burying the dead, or the mounds marking such burial sites.
The word extends to any final resting place: a watery grave, mass graves.
To dig your own grave is to cause your own downfall.
Something carries weight from beyond the grave when it influences events after the person's death.
To work yourself into an early grave is to harm your health through overwork. (Capitalized Graves is a surname.)
Place for interring remains
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- coffinBurial container for remains
- casketBurial container
crypt · mausoleum · sepulcher · plot · necropolis · burial · interment · exhumation
Intense sorrow from loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
condolences · eulogy · wake · memorial · remembrance · obituary · sympathy · hearse
Offering of respect
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- homageExpression of deep respect
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
respect · veneration · reverence · remembrance · decoration · ancestry · lineage · forebears
cemetery
Place for interring remains
- tombstoneMemorial stone at grave
- headstoneMemorial slab marking burial
- coffinBurial container for remains
casket · crypt · mausoleum · sepulcher · plot · necropolis · burial · interment · exhumation · shroud
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
sorrow · condolences · eulogy · wake · memorial · remembrance · obituary · sympathy · hearse · shiva
tribute
Offering of respect
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- homageExpression of deep respect
memorial · respect · veneration · reverence · remembrance · decoration · ancestry · lineage · forebears · ancestors
silence
Total lack of sound
serenity · quietude · somber · haunting · eerie · fog · moss · ivy · iron gates · willow
- cemeteriescemetery, burial, headstones, headstone, gravesites
- cemeteryheadstone, headstones, tombstone, tombs, epitaphs
- tombstombs, burial vault, burial chamber, mausoleum, sepulcher
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- burial customsburial, burial rites, burials, burial customs, tombs
- burial groundstombs, crypts, vaults, churchyards, graveyards
gravescradles
Rocking infant beds
nurseries · birthplaces · wombs · maternity wards · delivery rooms
gravesaltars
Sacred ceremonial tables
wedding chapels · baptismal fonts · ballrooms · dance floors · playgrounds
- cradle to graveEntire span of existence
- graveyard shiftLate-night work period
- one foot in the graveNear death's door
- dig one's own graveCause one's own undoing
- mass graveShared burial for many
- rolled in one's graveImagined corpse distress
grave, graveyard, engrave, engraving, engraved, gravely, gravestone, engraver, graver