graven

• Rhymes: -eɪvən

From Middle English graven, igraven, from Old English grafen, ġegrafen, from Proto-Germanic *grabanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *grabaną (“to dig, trench”), equivalent to grave +‎ -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian greeuwen, Dutch gegraven, German Low German graven, German gegraben, Icelandic grafinn.

graven

1. past participle of grave
   • 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009:

     Deep lines were graven on her pale forehead, and on her wan, thin cheeks.

graven (not comparable)

1. carved, engraved
   • Old Testament (Exodus 20:4 KJV)

     Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

2. Something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands.
3. Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.

From graven (adjective) above.

graven (third-person singular simple present gravens, present participle gravening, simple past and past participle gravened)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make graven or engraved
   • 1786, Thomas Doolittle, A treatise concerning the Lord's Supper:

     I saw I was not only gravened upon the palms of his hands, or set as a seal upon his arm, but I was pourtrayed upon his heart.

From grave (adjective) +‎ -en.

graven (third-person singular simple present gravens, present participle gravening, simple past and past participle gravened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become grave (serious or sombre)
   • 2012, Samuel W Herbert, Avenue:

     Whatever it was that had cast a dark shadow and gravened the faces of those normally ebullient people was much too complicated for me to understand.

graven

1. third-person plural present indicative form of gravar

graven c

1. singular definite of grav

• IPA^(key): /ˈɣraːvə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːvən

From Middle Dutch grāven, from Old Dutch gravan, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

graven

1. (transitive or intransitive) to dig

• delven

• aangraven
• begraven
• uitgraven

• graf

See the etymology of the main entry.

graven

1. Plural form of graf

graven

1. Plural form of graaf

• vragen

From Old Dutch gravan, from Proto-Germanic *grabaną.

grāven

1. to dig
2. to bury

• Dutch: graven
• Limburgish: grave

• “graven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “graven (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• grava

graven m or f

1. definite masculine singular of grav

graven

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of gravar.
2. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of gravar.
3. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of gravar.

graven

1. definite singular of grav