[syn: engraved, etched, graven, incised, inscribed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Grave \Grave\, v. t. [imp. Graved (gr[=a]vd); p. p. Graven
(gr[=a]v"'n) or Graved; p. pr. & vb. n. Graving.] [AS.
grafan to dig, grave, engrave; akin to OFries. greva, D.
graven, G. graben, OHG. & Goth. graban, Dan. grabe, Sw.
gr[aum]fva, Icel. grafa, but prob. not to Gr. gra`fein to
write, E. graphic. Cf. Grave, n., Grove, n.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To dig. [Obs.] Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
He hath graven and digged up a pit. --Ps. vii. 16
(Book of
Common
Prayer).
[1913 Webster]
2. To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard
substance; to engrave.
[1913 Webster]
Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them
the names of the children of Israel. --Ex. xxviii.
9.
[1913 Webster]
3. To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel;
to sculpture; as, to grave an image.
[1913 Webster]
With gold men may the hearte grave. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
4. To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
[1913 Webster]
O! may they graven in thy heart remain. --Prior.
[1913 Webster]
5. To entomb; to bury. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Graven \Grav"en\, p. p. of Grave, v. t.
Carved.
[1913 Webster]
Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from
wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any
graven image." --Ex. xx. 4.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
graven
adj 1: cut into a desired shape; "graven images"; "sculptured
representations" [syn: graven, sculpted,
sculptured]
2: cut or impressed into a surface; "an incised design";
"engraved invitations" [syn: engraved, etched, graven,
incised, inscribed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "graven":
anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anastatic, carved, ceroplastic, chased,
confirmed, creased, cut, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed,
deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set,
deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, enchased,
engrafted, engraved, engraven, entrenched, established, etched,
firmly established, furrowed, glyphic, glyptic, graved, grooved,
hammered, implanted, impressed, imprinted, in relief, incised,
indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inscribed,
insculptured, inveterate, inwrought, lined, long-established,
marked, modeled, molded, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, printed,
rooted, sculpted, sculptile, sculptured, set, settled, stabilized,
stamped, tooled, toreutic, vested, well-established, well-founded,
well-grounded, well-set, well-settled