graveful
graveful noun: enough to fill a grave.
Noun
graveful (plural gravefuls or gravesful)
- Enough to fill a grave.
- Cold damp sweat oozed from my temples; there was a dull heavy pressure upon my chest, as if there was the weight of a graveful of earth upon it; […] My senses left me, and when the men took me out, I seemed very likely to have real need of the coffin into which they had put me for fun.1866, John Whittaker, “Billy Blake’s Best Coffin. A Lancashire Sketch.”, in Once a Week, Bradbury, Evans, & Co., page 15
- Already the ivy has been carefully trained over it from top to bottom, and in front of it is a triple tomb, where a little knot of Frenchmen sleep between two gravefuls of the enemy.1871 April, “A Week in Paris”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume XXIII, number 136, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 488
Examples of graveful in a sentence
- Christ tears away the turf from our assumption of virtue and exposes a graveful of “dead men’s bones and uncleanness.”[c. 1885–1900], Joseph S[amuel] Exell, The Biblical Illustrator; or, Anecdotes, Similes, Emblems, Illustrations; Expository, Scientific...
- It’s always cold on this Yorkshire hillside where Anne Brontë lies dead under a graveful of red flowers.1987, Rony Robinson, “Beside the Seaside”, in The Beano, London; Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, part three, page 71:
- “Pati doesn’t know what a graveful of maggots he has nurtured here.1996, Felicity Savage, “Delta City”, in Garden of Salt; Humility Garden; Delta City, GuildAmerica Books, →ISBN, page 499:
- And I’ve had times when I’ve been faced with a graveful of bones and I’ve had to work out how many individuals there were.1996, Elizabeth Ironside [pseudonym; Catherine Manning], The Accomplice, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 74:
Forms of graveful
| plural | gravefuls |
|---|---|
| plural | gravesful |
Origin of graveful
From grave + -ful.
Questions about graveful
- What does graveful mean?
- Graveful means enough to fill a grave.
- How do you use graveful in a sentence?
- Christ tears away the turf from our assumption of virtue and exposes a graveful of “dead men’s bones and uncleanness.”
- What part of speech is graveful?
- Graveful is a noun.
- What is the plural of graveful?
- The plural of graveful is gravefuls.
Words near graveful in the dictionary
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