🪙 An engraved design 🪵 The act of carving 🔪 To carve or etch

to graving

7.9

To cut words and designs into metal or stone

verb
/ˈɡreɪvɪŋ/

Archaic

: grabar

She spent the afternoon graving initials into the silver locket.

Examples

He enjoys graving intricate designs on metal.
Workers are graving names into the memorial stone for the ceremony.
The artist was graving intricate patterns onto the metal plate for hours.
The artist is graving a beautiful pattern.
The skilled artisan is graving a detailed image onto the bronze plaque.
He spent the weekend graving beautiful designs into the stone countertop.
After hours of work, she proudly finished graving the names of the donors on the memorial.

Synonyms

engraving

vsto graving

25 4.1

A picture made by cutting or etching a hard surface

is more narrowly about cutting letters or designs often on metal or stone

etching

vsto graving

14 6.3

A picture made by cutting a metal plate with acid or the process of making that picture

is broader, covering cutting designs on hard surfaces not only acid plates

Compounds

graving dock

Specialized

8.4

A large dock that can be emptied of water so workers can fix the bottom of a ship

graving tool

Specialized

8.9

A thing used to cut designs into metal, wood, or stone

How Precise

to graving

Archaic

7.9

engraving

25 4.1

etching

14 6.3

cut

337 1.0

scratch

203 1.6

Surface Forms

grave infinitive

graved past

graved past participle

graving present participle

graves third person singular

Morphology

graving = grave (transparent) = grave + ing

Present-participle/gerund formation from the verb 'grave' by adding '-ing', a standard inflectional/derivational process.

Etymology

Graving as a verb form comes from the verb engrave (from grave), which originally meant 'to cut' or 'to dig into' something hard. So to be graving is simply cutting or etching letters or designs into metal, stone, or wood.