- comparative of grave.
graver
Americannoun
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gravers
plural
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any of various tools for chasing, engraving, etc., as a burin.
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an engraver.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of graver
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at grave 3, -er 1
Example Sentences
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So far, the war in Iran has put them in even graver danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Takaichi's challenges are graver: Japan is older, its economy is still growing too slowly and the world is in a very different place.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
“It’s far graver. Far, far graver now than it was.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025
Before I was ever a graver myself, one of my now-comrades in Texas wrote a memorial to a man on Find a Grave.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Jacob Riis, the New York journalist who had devoted himself to revealing the squalid housing of America’s poor, came to Chicago bearing counsel of a graver sort.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
There are, in my view, three categories of gravers: First, there are the mercenaries who, like me, fulfill specific photo requests for users.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
According to other gravers I spoke to, these kinds of situations are rare—but not entirely surprising.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
That’s because some gravers create memorials for the dead as soon as they find the obituary in their local paper.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Like many other gravers, I’ve come to understand personally the compulsion behind it—and all a simple discovery can do to a person still among the living.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
You are right, Sir Bohemond," said the Emperor; "the fabric of that cup is beautiful; it was done by one of the ancient gravers of Greece.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott
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