Graveful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Graveful is a noun meaning Enough to fill a grave.
Meaning
Enough to fill a grave.
Example Sentences
It’s always cold on this Yorkshire hillside where Anne Brontë lies dead under a graveful of red flowers.
Christ tears away the turf from our assumption of virtue and exposes a graveful of “dead men’s bones and uncleanness.”
“There’s so much hatred,” Elicit said bitterly. “Pati doesn’t know what a graveful of maggots he has nurtured here. He can’t.”
I took the job, the raise, and the cubicle, and I took my pride and stuffed it deep inside, jack-booted it down and covered it up with a graveful of dirt and regrets.
Word Forms
- gravefuls
- gravesful
Related Words
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