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engraveengrave /ɪnˈgreɪv/ verb ETYMOLOGYengraveOrigin: 1500-1600 grave to cut (11-21 centuries), from Old English grafan VERB TABLEengrave |
Present | I, you, we, they | engrave | | he, she, it | engraves | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | engraved | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have engraved | | he, she, it | has engraved | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had engraved | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will engrave | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have engraved |
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Present | I | am engraving | | he, she, it | is engraving | | you, we, they | are engraving | Past | I, he, she, it | was engraving | | you, we, they | were engraving | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been engraving | | he, she, it | has been engraving | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been engraving | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be engraving | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been engraving |
1 [transitive] eng. lang. arts to cut words or pictures into the surface of metal, wood, glass, etc.: engrave something on something The soldiers’ names are engraved on two marble walls.engrave something with something a thin gold bracelet engraved with her initials2be engraved in your memory/mind/heart formal to be impossible to forget: Their last conversation is deeply engraved in my memory.3[intransitive, transitive] eng. lang. arts to make an image that will be printed by burning the shape into a special metal plate, using acid—engraver noun [countable] |