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US
/ˈɡɹeɪvən/
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[ UK /ɡɹˈeɪvən/ ]
[ UK /ɡɹˈeɪvən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
cut or impressed into a surface
an incised design
engraved invitations -
cut into a desired shape
sculptured representations
graven images
How To Use graven In A Sentence
- Thus the sea level record is documented graven in stone as well as in the FIMR database.
- There is no reason to suppose that history is at an end, that the current structures of authority and domination are graven in stone.
- Stripped to the waist, the contours of their musculature were faintly graven with decades-old surgical scars.
- He planted his watchful mo - ther as a kind of duenna over her, when - ever he rode out to pay his complin: ients tQ the lord of Gravenegg, whofe vaffal he was. Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford].
- Thou hast made a graven image and Jeroboam-like wouldst have everyone else bow down before thy calf.
- The communion of that hour will be graven on my memory while life shall last.
- A leading European urologist in 1863 described the collection as ‘the most perfect and complete record literally graven in stone that the world possesses of calculous experience’.
- Androcracy no less than gynecocracy has graven the furrows of care on the brow of mankind. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
- CZ: Ref: Lillegraven 1987 The origin of eutherian mammals Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- The planes of his face had never looked so hard, so graven. DEVIL'S BRIDE