engrave

See also: engravé

English

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

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

(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:
  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."
(transitive) To carve (something) into a material.
He engraved his name.

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
Ottoman Turkish: قازمق (kazmak)
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), burilar (es), inscribir (es), entallar (es), epigrafiar (es), incidir (es)
Swedish: gravera (sv), karva (sv), etsa (sv)

From en- +‎ grave.

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

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

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