Use engrave on for the surface receiving the text or design. Use engrave with for the tool or added design. Use engrave in mainly for location inside a material or for figurative memory.
Engrave on is the most common pattern for surfaces. Engrave with can describe the instrument or the words/design added. Engrave in is used for something cut into material or fixed deeply in memory.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use on for metal, stone, glass, and other surfaces.
Use with for the content added to the object.
With can also introduce the tool used for engraving.
Use in for marks cut into material or figurative permanent memory.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Use with when naming the words or design added.
✕ The ring was engraved on her initials. ✓ The ring was engraved with her initials.On is more natural when referring to a visible surface.
✕ The name was engraved in the plaque. ✓ The name was engraved on the plaque.With can name the instrument, while on names the surface.
✓ The artist engraved the text on the glass with a laser.Engrave normally needs an object or passive structure.
✓ They engraved the family crest on the gate.Choose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Engrave on is more common for physical surfaces such as plaques and jewellery.
Yes. You can say something was engraved with a laser or with a needle.
No. It is a figurative expression meaning remembered very clearly.
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