Graved vs Gravid - What's the difference?
graved | gravid |
(grave)
Pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
* 2004 , David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 568:
As a verb graved
is (grave).As an adjective gravid is
pregnant; now used chiefly of egg-laying animals, or metaphorically.graved
English
Alternative forms
* grove simple past * graven past particlpleVerb
(head)Anagrams
*gravid
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The gravest problems of obstetrics and forensic medicine were examined with as much animation as the most popular beliefs on the state of pregnancy such as the forbidding to a gravid woman to step over a country stile lest, by her movement, the navelcord should strangle her creature
- One slender hand was raised in a graceful gesture gravid with meaning.
- The minute she'd settled into the seat next to him, her billowing widow's rig had got redisposed to reveal her neatly gravid waistline, at which, now, he nodded.