Definition of "gravelike" [gravelike]

• Resembling a grave (burial place) or some aspect of one. (adjective)

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• "They were men used to the silence of the great wilderness, but this gravelike silence of a town worried them."
• "Hence the best course is to put up with everything, behave like a heavy mass, and even if you feel blasted away, not be inveigled into taking any unnecessary step, gaze at the other with animal eyes, feel no remorse—in short, push down with your own hands any ghost of life surviving in you, increase, that is, the final gravelike rest and let nothing else exist."
• "And he didn't have to tell them where to dig, because the freshly turned earth, in its chillingly gravelike shape, was obvious."