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CARVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary)
Example:
stood as if carven from stone
Synonyms:
carved; carven
Classified under:
Similar:
engraved; etched; graven; incised; inscribed (cut or impressed into a surface)
graven; sculpted; sculptured (cut into a desired shape)
lapidarian (inscribed on stone)
sliced ((used of meat) cut into pieces for serving)
Domain category:
literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)
Antonym:
uncarved (not carved)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb carve
Context examples:
They assessed whether or not the valleys carved into the blankets of surrounding debris ejected from the craters, as an indicator of whether the valleys are older or younger than the craters.
(Some Ancient Mars Lakes Came Long After Others, NASA)
Ushabti figurines (small carved figurines) were often placed with the deceased in ancient Egyptian tombs to help with responsibilities in the afterlife.
(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was a very large and high chamber, with carved oak ceiling, oaken panelling, and a fine array of deer’s heads and ancient weapons around the walls.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could see even in the dim light that the stone was massively carved, but that the carving had been much worn by time and weather.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
According to researchers at the Smithsonian Institution and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, rain on Mars once carved river beds and created valleys much like rain on Earth has, and does.
(Heavy Rain May Have Once Fallen on Mars, VOA)
Upon the floor, close to the body, was lying a singular club of hard carved wood with a bone handle.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Al-Anani said a cartouche carved on the ceiling bears the name of King Thutmose I of the early 18th dynasty.
(Discovery of Two Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Announced in Egypt, VOA)
The handle turned, the door unclosed, and passing through and curtseying low, I looked up at—a black pillar!—such, at least, appeared to me, at first sight, the straight, narrow, sable-clad shape standing erect on the rug: the grim face at the top was like a carved mask, placed above the shaft by way of capital.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He carved, and ate, and praised with delighted alacrity; and every dish was commended, first by him and then by Sir William, who was now enough recovered to echo whatever his son-in-law said, in a manner which Elizabeth wondered Lady Catherine could bear.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
We did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough of a wave, with the letters L. S. carved upon it, and that is all which we shall ever know of the fate of the Lone Star.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
