| 单词 | engrave |
| 释义 | engrave (once / 379 pages) v 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. Grave used to mean “to dig or carve” but no one uses it that way anymore because they would say engrave instead. Anytime a hard surface has a message or picture cut into, it was engraved. Sometimes engraving isn’t physical. A super fun birthday when your long lost grandmother rode in on a stallion could be engraved in your mind forever. Both kinds of engraving leave an impression. WORD FAMILYengrave: engraved, engraver, engraves, engraving+/engraver: engravers/engraving: engravings USAGE EXAMPLESIt became their own little phrase and I engraved it onto a charm for them,” she says. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The three-foot-tall crosses were engraved with the name of a homicide victim. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) Each gun was reportedly engraved with the player’s number. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface engrave a pen engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's Syn|Hypo|Hyper grave, inscribe, scratch etch carve or cut a design or letters into character engrave or inscribe characters on carve, chip at engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface 2v carve or cut a design or letters into engrave the pen with the owner's name Syn|Hyper etch grave, inscribe, scratch carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface carve, chip at engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface 3v carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block engrave a letter Syn|Hypo|Hyper etch benday reproduce by the Benday process stippleengrave by means of dots and flicks print make into a print 4v impress or affect deeply The event engraved itself into her memory Hyper affect, impress, move, strike have an emotional or cognitive impact upon |
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