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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Engrave \En*grave"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. {Engraved}; p. p. {Engraved} or {Engraven}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Engraving}.] [Pref. en- + grave to carve: cf. OF. engraver.]
1. To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.]
Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave. --Spenser.
2. To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.
Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. --Ex. xxviii. 11.
3. To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
4. To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
Engrave principles in men's minds. --Locke.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Engraved \En*graved"\, adjective
1. Made by engraving or ornamented with engraving.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Having the surface covered with irregular, impressed lines.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
engraved
adjective: cut or impressed into a surface; "an incised design"; "engraved invitations" [syn: {etched}, {graven}, {incised}, {inscribed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "engraved": alveolar, alveolate, canaliculate, canaliculated, carved, chamfered, channeled, confirmed, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, creased, crimped, cut, dadoed, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dented, depressed, dimpled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, enchased, engrafted, entrenched, established, etched, faveolate, firmly established, fluted, furrowed, gashed, glyphic, goffered, gouged, graved, graven, grooved, honeycombed, implanted, impressed, imprinted, incised, indelibly impressed, indented, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inscribed, insculptured, inveterate, inwrought, lined, long-established, marked, notched, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, pitted, pleated, pocked, pockmarked, printed, rabbeted, ribbed, rifled, rooted, rutted, rutty, scored, scratched, sculptured, set, settled, slit, stabilized, stamped, striated, sulcate, sulcated, tooled, troughed, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled, wrinkled
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