to carve

Examples

• All

• Below me, the second creek had carved out a small beach of round stones.

  Fiction book (1997)

• We've carved out a simple life here.

  Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)

• Advertisers in the early twentieth century tried to carve out a market share.

  Academic text (2005)

• A few women succeeded in carving out political identities for themselves over the course of the Revolution.

  Academic text (2011)

• The lab has carved out a niche in the increasingly crowded world of digital humanities.

  Academic text (2016)

• Similarly, in New York v. Quarles, the Court carved out a "public safety" exception to Miranda.

  Academic text (2001)

• The digital forensics team worked hard to carve the necessary files from the damaged hard drive.

• Using specialized software, the technician was able to carve important data fragments from the corrupted storage device.

• To recover the lost information, they needed to carve the files from a deep scan of the digital archive.

Antonyms

D

to delete

370 2.0

To remove information like text or files so it cannot be seen

Phrasal Verbs

C

to carve out

55 4.6

Make a place for yourself in a job or field by working hard

C

to carve up

23 5.8

To divide something into parts to share between people

C

to carve out a niche

2 6.0

To create a special area of work or market for yourself

C

to carve a path

2 4.2

To make a way through something, physically or by creating new opportunities

C

to carve a totem

1 8.4

Make a wooden statue that shows cultural or spiritual beliefs to honor tradition

How Complete

to reconstruct

41 3.9

to recover

865 2.5

to carve

• Specialized

1 8.4

to extract

175 3.9

scan

152 3.8

Surface Forms

Etymology