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engrave

verb
/ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/

Etymology

From earlier ingrave, equivalent to en- + grave (“to carve, engrave”). More at grave.

  1. derived from *gʰrebʰ-✻ — “to dig, scratch, scrape”
  2. inherited from *grabą✻
  3. inherited from *grab✻
  4. inherited from græf
  5. inherited from grave
  6. prefixed as engrave — “en + grave”

Definitions

  1. To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or…

    To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

    • He engraved the plaque with his name.

  2. To carve (something) into a material.

    • He engraved his name.

  3. To put in a grave, to bury.

    • So both agree their bodies to engraue; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].

The neighborhood

  • synonymcarvecarve (text or symbols) into
  • synonymetchcarve (text or symbols) into
  • synonyminscribecarve (text or symbols) into

Derived

engravable, engravement, engraven, engravery, microengrave, misengrave, photoengrave, reengrave

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at engrave. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01engrave02grave03earth04planet05uranus06god07importance08standing09cut10incise

A definitional loop anchored at engrave. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at engrave

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA