| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut into |
| Synonyms: | carve, chisel, engrave, etch |
| Main Entry: | chip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | knock a piece out of |
| Synonyms: | break, chisel, chop, clip, crack, crack off, crumble, cut away, cut off, damage, flake, fragment, gash, hack, hackle, hew, incise, nick, notch, shape, shear, slash, slice, sliver, snick, snip, splinter, split, whack, whittle |
| Main Entry: | chisel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, wear away |
| Synonyms: | carve, hew, incise, roughcast, roughhew, sculpt, sculpture, shape |
| Main Entry: | etch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carve |
| Synonyms: | compose, corrode, cut, define, delineate, depict, describe, eat into, engrave, erode, execute, furrow, grave, impress, imprint, incise, ingrain, inscribe, outline, picture, portray, reduce, represent, set forth, stamp |
| Main Entry: | gash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut by slicing |
| Synonyms: | carve, cleave, furrow, gouge, incise, injure, lacerate, lance, mark, nip, notch, pierce, rend, slash, slit, split, tear, wound |
| Main Entry: | lance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pierce |
| Synonyms: | bore, cut, cut into, gash, gore, incise, penetrate, prick, puncture, slash, slice, slit, stab, stick into |
| Main Entry: | notch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | indent |
| Synonyms: | chisel, cleave, crenelate, crimp, cut, dent, gash, incise, jag, mark, mill, nick, scallop, score, scratch |
| Antonyms: | flush |
| Main Entry: | pierce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, penetrate |
| Synonyms: | bore, break, break in, break through, cleave, crack, crack open, drill, enter, gash, incise, intrude, pass through, perforate, plow, prick, probe, puncture, run through, slash, slice, slit, spike, stab, stick into, transfix |
| Antonyms: | sew up |
| Main Entry: | pink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut in zigzag |
| Synonyms: | incise, notch, perforate, prick, punch, scallop, score |