engrave (engraves, present participle engraving; past and past participle engraved)

1. (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

   He engraved the plaque with his name.

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

2. (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.

   He engraved his name.

• (carve (text or symbols) into) carve, etch, inscribe

• French: graver
• German: gravieren
• Italian: incidere, intagliare, bulinare
• Portuguese: gravar
• Russian: гравирова́ть
• Spanish: grabar

engrave (engraves, present participle engraving; past and past participle engraved)

1. (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     So both agree their bodies to engraue; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].