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单词 incise
释义 in·cise
\(ˈ)in|sīz, -īs\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French inciser, from Latin incisus, past participle of incidere, from in- in- (II) + -cidere (from caedere to cut) — more at concise
intransitive verb
obsolete : to make an incision
transitive verb
1. : to cut into : make an incision in
 < incised the swollen tissue >
2.
 a. : to carve figures, letters, or devices into : engrave
  < incise a tablet with an inscription >
 b. : to produce (as letters, figures, or devices) by carving into a surface
  < incise an inscription on a monument >
3.
 a. : to produce (a narrow steep-walled valley) by downward erosion
  < caused the streams to incise their valleys — C.O.Dunbar >
 b. : to lower (itself) by eroding a deeper channel
  < the streams then incised themselves to the new baselevel — C.O.Dunbar >
 c. : to intersect as a deep narrow cut
  < more than twenty different submarine canyon systems incise the continental border — J.C.Crowell >
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