ENGRAVE


Meaning of ENGRAVE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

heart

The date was engraved on his heart .

name

You can have your cork engraved with names and dates.

They engraved her name in gold and wrote on the plaque that she was the daughter of a king.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A heavy block of lead backing the engraved logo of a column I wrote regularly, decades ago at another newspaper.

It's an address engraved in my brain.

It had no numbers engraved upon it, only bare lines.

The 50 names are engraved on three granite tablets.

The heavy pressure of the pen made each line appear engraved.

The words could be engraved over the entrance to the Pentagon today.

When engraving was developed or etching was developed, engraving sort of, a lot of people lost interest in engraving.

Wood engraving is an old process: Many newspaper and magazine illustrations from the previous century were reproduced through the process.

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