gravest

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a place in the ground where a dead person is buried:

mass grave Most of the victims' bodies were found in a mass grave.

unmarked grave He was buried in an unmarked grave in the prison cemetery.

a grave digger

He visits his mother's grave every Sunday.

seriously bad:

a grave situation

a place where a dead person or dead people are buried, esp. when under the ground and marked by a stone

urgent and very bad; serious:

It was the gravest political crisis of his career.