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View definitions for in the grave

in the grave

adjective as in departed

adjective as in six feet under

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John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave, John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave, John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.

His mother Sophiia Buhayova, 27, is buried in the grave with him, in a bleak and windswept cemetery in Ukraine's southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

From BBC

Adam's great-grandmother, Tetiana Tarasevych, 68, is in the grave right beside them.

From BBC

Democracy is dead and the large number of Americans who are watching from the gravesite as the bodies are buried are too busy spitting on the corpses to understand it is they who are being tossed in the grave too.

From Salon

The exhumation happened on Tuesday and it said the formal process to establish the identity of all of the remains found in the grave has begun.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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