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Meaning of graven

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

graven

verb

Definitions

  1. To dig.

  2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

  3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.

    Example: to grave an image

  4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Carved, engraved

  2. Something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands.

  3. Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.