单词 | incise |
释义 | incise (once / 1548 pages) v To incise is to carve or cut into something. You might incise your initials into the old oak tree in your backyard. When you incise something, you carve it, often as a way of decorating it. Your grandfather might incise his beloved walking stick with the shapes of birds and trees, for example. It's more common to see this word in its adjective form, incised, but you can use it to mean "cut into a surface," or even "make a surgical cut." The Latin root is incidere, "to cut into or cut through." WORD FAMILYincise: incised, incising, incision, incisive, incisure+/incision: incisions/incisive: incisively, incisiveness/incisure: incisures USAGE EXAMPLESProsecutor John Price said the body was discovered in a pool of blood with deep incised wounds to the wrists, which were not self-inflicted. BBC(Dec 19, 2016) Each slice is incised with lines that resemble neural networks and a cutout of a word, written in cursive. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) The recent rains have made the soil beneath the fallen leaves a muddy squelch, deeply incised with fresh bike tracks. The Guardian(Nov 19, 2016) v make an incision into by carving or cutting Hypo|Hyper notch cut or make a notch into scrape, scratch, scratch upcut the surface of; wear away the surface of groovemake a groove in, or provide with a groove slitcut a slit into worrylacerate by biting deaden, girdlecut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients mark, nock, scoremake small marks into the surface of indentnotch the edge of or make jagged clawscratch, scrape, pull, or dig with claws or nails scuffmar by scuffing dadocut a dado into or fit into a dado millproduce a ridge around the edge of cut separate with or as if with an instrument |
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