Grave and Pit

Grave

Grave noun - A final resting place for a dead person.

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Pit and grave are semantically related in tomb topic. In some cases you can use "Pit" instead a noun "Grave".

Nearby Words: gravely, gravel, graved, graver, graveled

Pit noun - A sunken area forming a separate space.

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Grave and pit are semantically related in hole topic. Sometimes you can use "Grave" instead a noun "Pit".

old	old grave	old pit
certain	certain grave	certain pit
original	original grave	original pit
fake	fake grave	fake pit
Other adjectives: green, single, deep, open, simple, empty, small, actual, big, infamous, dark, watery, new, makeshift, hidden, random, said, nearby.

In English it has been translated variously as "Hell", "the grave", and "the pit".

Source: The Nothing After Death
Then Lesko falls down a pit and dies, but eventually returns from the grave and goes around hitting people with a hammer.

Source: Surreal Humor
Averted in Clint McCullough's Nevada, where Tony Guliano is in a pit, thinking he's being forced to dig his own grave, when Gatori, the man he hired to get Meade Slaughter's son hooked on drugs, is tossed into the pit.

Source: No Dead Body Poops

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