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verb
- 1. cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object: "my name was engraved on the ring" Similar
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to cut a picture or design, or letters into the surface of a hard substance such as metal, wood, or stone: The 2000-year-old ivories are intricately carved and engraved with scenes of palace life.
The meaning of ENGRAVE is to impress deeply as if with a graver. How to use engrave in a sentence.
to cut a picture or design, or letters into the surface of a hard substance such as metal, wood, or stone: The 2000-year-old ivories are intricately carved and engraved with scenes of palace life. If something is engraved in your memory, mind, or heart, it is something you will never forget.
Engrave definition: to chase (letters, designs, etc.) on a hard surface, as of metal, stone, or the end grain of wood. See examples of ENGRAVE used in a sentence.
If you engrave something with a design or words, or if you engrave a design or words on it, you cut the design or words into its surface. Your wedding ring can be engraved with a personal inscription at no extra cost.
To engrave is to carve into something, especially stone. Sometimes people have messages engraved inside their wedding rings, their iPods, or any other rock-hard surface that can handle it. Words are engraved on tombstones to honor the people who died.
1. to cut or etch (designs, etc.) into a hard surface, as of metal, stone, or the end grain of wood. 2. to print from such a surface. 3. to ornament with incised letters, designs, etc.: to engrave a ring with a floral pattern. 4. photoengrave.
Definition of engrave verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
verb. engraved, engraves, engraving. To carve, cut, or etch into a material. Engraved the champion's name on the trophy. American Heritage. To cut or incise letters, designs, etc. in or on (a surface) Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To cut or incise (a picture, letters, etc.) into a metal plate, wooden block, etc. for printing.
engrave meaning, definition, what is engrave: to cut words or designs on metal, wood, ...: Learn more.
