engrave
verb /ɪnˈɡreɪv/
/ɪnˈɡreɪv/
[often passive]Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they engrave | /ɪnˈɡreɪv/ /ɪnˈɡreɪv/ |
| he / she / it engraves | /ɪnˈɡreɪvz/ /ɪnˈɡreɪvz/ |
| past simple engraved | /ɪnˈɡreɪvd/ /ɪnˈɡreɪvd/ |
| past participle engraved | /ɪnˈɡreɪvd/ /ɪnˈɡreɪvd/ |
| -ing form engraving | /ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ/ /ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ/ |
- to cut words or designs on wood, stone, metal, etc.
- A is engraved (with B) The silver cup was engraved with his name.
- B is engraved on A His name was engraved on the silver cup.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEngrave is used with these nouns as the object:- inscription
Word Originlate 15th cent. (formerly also as ingrave): from en-, in- ‘in, on’ + grave, ‘engrave an inscription on a surface’ influenced by obsolete French engraver.
Idioms
be engraved on/in your heart, memory, mind, etc.
- to be something that you will never forget because it affected you so strongly
- The date of the accident remains engraved on my mind.