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# graver

«graver» in Mova's school dictionary: **more serious or more worrying: a graver danger** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (grave, graver, gravest); noun (a graver — tool)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Graver means more serious or more worrying: a graver danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#m1)

2) A graver is a sharp tool for cutting lines into metal, wood or stone (an engraving tool). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Formal writing and news (a graver problem), doctors' talk, art and craft (engraving).

### examples

- The flood was a graver danger than the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#x1)
- The doctor's face grew graver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#x2)
- Nothing could be graver than lying under oath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#x3)
- The artist cut the lines with a graver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#x4)
- The situation is graver than we thought. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#x5)
- Lying would only make things graver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#x6)
- For she had also been wise, and lack-ing her guidance, all grave affairs seemed graver, shadowing each day and going with him to the pillow at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/#x7)

### note

Comparative of grave (serious): grave, graver, gravest. Not related in meaning to a «grave» for burial (same spelling, different word).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «graver» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/graver/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.