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

As the tides ebbed and flowed considerably, the ships were put on shore to be careened and graved.

From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles

A boy is to be graved weeping over a broken urn.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

The fires of a thousand passions had graved these deep curves of bitterness, and marred the once genial mouth with the never absent sneer, and perverted an intellect once pure and stately.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie