Cryptic crossword clue
Good to arrive at party sober 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GRAVE

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What does GRAVE mean?

GRAVE noun
  1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
  2. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.
  3. (by extension) Death, destruction.
GRAVE verb
  1. To dig.
  2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
  3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
  4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
  5. To entomb; to bury.
  6. To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
GRAVE noun
  1. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).
GRAVE adjective
  1. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
  2. Low in pitch, tone etc.
  3. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
  4. Influential, important; authoritative.
GRAVE noun
  1. A count, prefect, or person holding office.
GRAVE verb
  1. To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

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