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Synonyms for carved

Grammar : Adj
Spell : kahrv
Phonetic Transcription : kɑrv

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Définition of carved

Origin :
  • Old English ceorfan (class III strong verb; past tense cearf, past participle corfen) "to cut, cut down, slay; to carve, cut out, engrave," from West Germanic *kerfan (cf. Old Frisian kerva, Middle Dutch and Dutch kerven, German kerben "to cut, notch"), from PIE root *gerbh- "to scratch," making carve the English cognate of Greek graphein "to write," originally "to scratch" on clay tablets with a stylus.
  • Once extensively used, most senses now usurped by cut (v.). Meaning specialized to sculpture, meat, etc., by 16c. Related: Carved; carving. Original strong conjugation has been abandoned, but archaic carven lingers.
  • adj incised
Example sentences :
  • In the garden of Anaxagoras, you will find a statue of Pallas, carved from an olive-tree.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • On the wall opposite the house the name of "Gladstone" is carved.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • The edges and corners of the box were carved with most wonderful skill.
  • Extract from : « The Paradise of Children » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The moon shone on them; they looked as if they were carved with marble.
  • Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
  • We carved off a supply from both, and saved the skins, and hove the rest overboard.
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • In the white moonlight, she and Benny looked as if they had been carved from stone.
  • Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
  • Thus they reached their chamber, and its carved doors shut behind them.
  • Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
  • They found, too, the carved marble slabs that showed the labors of Herakles.
  • Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
  • The chapter-house was like a great church, carved and painted like a parliament-house.
  • Extract from : « English Villages » by P. H. Ditchfield
  • I was standing beside the monument, leaning on the carved Crusader.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
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