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carve

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"Cut into shape"

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5 lettersPronunciation /kɑɹv/Part of speech verbSorted acervStarts with CEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. To cut or shape something from a material.

Word origin

From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).

Used in a sentence

  • My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure, / My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure.
  • You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.
  • to carve a name into a tree

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