graved
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When they pull up to the empty lot, she isn’t sure it’s right—the dirt graved in white and the scrappy weeds glazed to silver.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague.
From Time Magazine Archive
In her breast she hid a dagger with dragon-lines graved on it, and upon her forehead she wrote the name of the Great God.
From The Chinese Fairy Book by Richard Wilhelm
No royal name was cut, but the place of his burial was deeply graved in the hearts of all present.
From Trusia A Princess of Krovitch by Davis Brinton
Graving, grāv′ing, n. an act of graving or cutting out on hard substances: that which is graved or cut out: carved-work: act of cleaning a ship's bottom.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
