verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sth is etched in your memory (= it is impossible to forget )
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The date was etched in my memory.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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Since Maggie had returned, suspicion had been etched across Richie's face every day, and it was there now.
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She took her place at his side again, and watched the exquisitely etched face in the soft light.
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The rigours of the most demanding season the game has known were etched on Moore's face .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not be carved/etched in stone
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John has several new ideas for the show, but nothing is etched in stone yet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The design is etched onto the glasses using a laser.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A white flame roared up, etching the room in black and white.
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An appendix scar was lightly etched on his stomach above the Speedo.
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His face was long and etched with a look of permanent sorrow.
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She took her place at his side again, and watched the exquisitely etched face in the soft light.
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That contrast of tender sensibility and senseless brutality was etched into my mind, exposing the utter meaninglessness of violence and war.
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The U.S. studies have drawn attention to the use of glycol ethers - solvents used to etch circuits on to silicon wafers.
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When engraving was developed or etching was developed, engraving sort of, a lot of people lost interest in engraving.