Crossword clues for engrave
engrave
- Make a lasting impression
- Personalize, in a way
- Avenger (anag) — chase
- Put words on a ring
- Personalize, perhaps
- Personalize, at the jeweler's
- Personalize at the jeweler's
- Personalize a bracelet, e.g
- Personalize a bracelet
- Imprint, as on metal
- Imprint on a hard surface
- Etch deeply
- Deeply impress?
- Carve into stone, say
- Add an inscription to, perhaps
- Add a monogram to, perhaps
- Mark a marker?
- Prepare, as a fancy invitation
- Chisel
- Carve on, as a monument
- Etch, as a plaque
- Impress deeply?
- Chase
- Make an impression in French accent
- Cut, carve (a design)
- Cut or carve (a text)
- Carve into metal
- Avenger moved to impress deeply
- E.g. write on headstone, a small space, solemnly
- Appendix in the middle given serious cut
- Deeply impress rampaging avenger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engrave \En*grave"\, v. t. [imp. Engraved; p. p. Engraved or Engraven; p. pr. & vb. n. Engraving.] [Pref. en- + grave to carve: cf. OF. engraver.]
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To cut in; to make by incision. [Obs.]
Full many wounds in his corrupted flesh He did engrave.
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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. To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.
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To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.
Engrave principles in men's minds.
--Locke.
Engrave \En*grave"\, v. t. [Pref. en- + grave a tomb. Cf.
Engrave to carve.]
To deposit in the grave; to bury. [Obs.] ``Their corses to
engrave.''
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. 1 (lb en transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art. 2 (lb en transitive) To carve (something) into a material. Etymology 2
vb. (context obsolete English) To put in a grave, to bury.
WordNet
v. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface; "engrave a pen"; "engraved the winner's name onto the trophy cup" [syn: grave, inscribe]
impress or affect deeply; "The event engraved itself into her memory"
carve, cut, or etch into a block used for printing or print from such a block; "engrave a letter"
carve, cut, or etch a design or letters into; "engrave the pen with the owner's name"
Wikipedia
Engrave is the second album released by Amulet.
Usage examples of "engrave".
Here were deposited charts of the coast, and of the navigation of the Nile, which were engraved on pillars, and in aftertimes sketched out upon the Nilotic Papyrus.
Thus, at one moment I was an Aurignacian, engraving his cave wall with vivid shapes of deer and bison, while my fellow hunters peered with admiration through the smoke.
On the second finger of his right hand he wore a narrow gold ring, engraved with a compass and a backstaff, the tools of the navigator, and above these a crowned lion.
Literary, Artistic, Historical, Topographical, Typographical, and Antiquarian Reminiscences connected with the early Printing and Engraving of Banbury involved that of many other important towns and counties of Great Britain, and also America.
It was printed over one broad, high cheekbone with a blackwork tattoo fine as engraving, an abstract patterned curl.
Sebastian Cabot Mappamundi of 1544 is an engraved map drawn in one ellipsis on the Bordone projection.
Brontosaurus, diplodocus, brachiosaurus, iguanodon, moschops, stegosaurus, triceratops, and other droppings were labeled by engraving on the bronze stands that held the spheres.
They were shaped and finished as nicely as if they were breastpins for the Titans to wear, and on their polished surfaces were engraved in imperishable characters the records they were erected to preserve.
His grandmother opened an engraved oval compacta twenty-four-karat guilt gift from the rogueand pretended to check her hair in the mirror.
But there is room to suspect that the elegance of his designs and engraving has somewhat flattered the objects which it was their purpose to represent.
The words Coffee Parlour were engraved on the brass doorplate, but the room was designed for afternoon tea as well as morning coffee.
The firm prints, engraves, electroplates, sews, binds, publishes, and sells wholesale and retail.
Stolen articles: Gold chalice signed Nicholas me fecit, paten engraved manus Dei 13th Century.
One of his ancestors before him, Giusto Sperelli, had tried his hand at engraving.
He must have known of her passion for gold because when he died he left four hundred Roman grani with a papal eagle and ut commonius engraved on the back, and three gold coins with the face of Charles II, King of Spain.