carve out
verbDefinitions
To hollow by carving.
To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work, or as if by…
To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work, or as if by cutting.
- I managed to carve out a niche for myself in the world of investigative journalism.
- [Macbeth][…] with his brandished steel […] carved out his passage.
- Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for carve out. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA