incise

We see how the form of a finial was generated by the progressive subdivision of a square, precisely the same process by which the mason would incise and cut his stone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

"One way you can think about how rivers incise long term -- you need to be able to move sediment, and once you cross over some threshold, you can incise the river," Carr said.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023

“These linear features mean the river is going to form in the same place every year, allowing the water to incise deeper,” Boghosian says.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2022

The local artist uses a compass to incise tightly arrayed complementary lines into large sheets of black-painted plaster topped with glistening layers of graphite and varnish; the resulting pieces appear metallic and machine-tooled.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021

V. furrow &c. n.; flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

It’s just that the artist, a Zenith regular, now incises woodcut-like runes into their bodies.

From Washington Post

One intriguing discovery is a deep channel incised in Antarctica's bed in an area called the Maud Subglacial Basin.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

But the opposite, reflective face bears an image incised in finely engraved lines that under normal conditions is virtually imperceptible to the naked eye.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

They found that the Martian valleys' branching angles "are more similar to terrestrial valley networks incised by overland flow, than valley networks incised by re-emerging groundwater flow."

From Salon ● May 16, 2025

Stylistically, those two small children, their flatly painted bodies incised in two-dimensional profile, slide back thousands of years to the African continent and Egyptian art — product of an ancient slave culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

A sculpture of vertical folds incised by a tapering spiral.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The scratching alerts us to what will be increasingly vigorous attacks on the canvas surface—scraping, rubbing, incising fine lines—emphasizing the character of her paintings as objects, rather than representations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026

“Pretty much every surgeon draws their proposed incision with a marker prior to actually incising the skin.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023

Other harmful or nonmedical procedures, including piercing, pricking, incising, scraping and cauterization.

From New York Times ● May 24, 2019

He extended the idea to works on—or, rather, in—paper, puncturing and incising it from behind.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2019

Min and the other potters continued throwing pots, incising them with designs, glazing, firing, rejecting some vessels and keeping others.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park