engrave

engrave

See also: engravé

English

Alternative forms

• ingrave

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪv
• Hyphenation: en‧grave

Etymology 1

From earlier ingrave, equivalent to en- +‎ grave (“to carve, engrave”). More at grave.

Verb

engrave (third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved)

1. (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

   He engraved the plaque with his name.

   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

2. (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.

   He engraved his name.

Conjugation

Conjugation of engrave

infinitive	(to) engrave
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	engrave	engraved
2nd-person singular
3rd-person singular	engraves
plural	engrave
subjunctive	engrave	engraved
imperative	engrave	—
participles	engraving	engraved

Synonyms

• (carve (text or symbols) into): carve, etch, inscribe

Translations

carve text or symbols into (something)

Bulgarian: грави́рам (bg) (gravíram) Catalan: gravar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 雕刻 (zh) (diāokè), 鐫刻／镌刻 (zh) (juānkè) Danish: indgravere, gravere Dutch: graveren (nl) Finnish: kaivertaa (fi) French: graver (fr) German: gravieren (de) Greek: χαράσσω (el) (charásso) Ancient: χαράσσω (kharássō) Irish: grábháil Italian: incidere (it), intagliare (it), bulinare (it) Japanese: 刻む (ja) (きざむ, kizamu), 彫り込む (ほりこむ, horikomu), 彫刻する (ja) (ちょうこくする, chōkoku suru) Latin: insigno, caelō Luxembourgish: gravéieren Maori: whaowhao Middle English: graven Norwegian: gravere Bokmål: inngravere Polish: grawerować (pl) impf, rytować impf Portuguese: gravar (pt) Russian: гравирова́ть (ru) (gravirovátʹ), высека́ть (ru) (vysekátʹ), выреза́ть (ru) (vyrezátʹ) Serbo-Croatian: ugravirati (sh), угравирати Spanish: grabar (es) Swedish: gravera (sv), karva (sv), etsa (sv)

Etymology 2

From en- +‎ grave.

Verb

engrave (third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved)

1. (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:

     So both agree their bodies to engraue; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].

Anagrams

• Grevena, avenger, vernage

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French

Verb

engrave

1. inflection of engraver:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• vengera