watery graves
Drowned sailors' resting
Watery graves refers to the ocean, a lake, or other body of water as a place of death and burial—where drowned victims or sunken ships come to rest.
The phrase is almost always plural and appears in dramatic or literary contexts: The sailors met their watery graves when the ship went down.
It evokes both the manner of death and the absence of a traditional burial.
- shipwreckDestroyed vessel at sea
- submergedBelow water's surface
- drowningDeath by water inhalation
- lost at seaMissing in ocean waters
- sunkForced beneath water
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watery gravesearth burial
Interring remains underground
grave plots · burial grounds · interment · mausoleums · tombs
watery gravesheadstones
Burial site monuments
gravestones · burial plots · family plots · memorial sites · tombstones
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