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Meanings of etch in English

Portuguese
gravar
Spanish
grabar

Carve or cut a design or letters into.

gravar
Synonyms
Examples for "engrave"
Examples for "engrave"
1
Must we engrave on that column: We repealed the Declaration of Independence.
Public Speaking: Principles and Practice
2
Certain details engrave themselves upon the tablets of recollection by their persistence.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
3
Yet fewer than 20 people in Britain still engrave by hand.
BBC
4
These are words engraved in the American mind and the American character.
The Irish Times
5
On the walls are engraved the names of the thousands of victims.
Reuters
Usage of etch in English
1
To accompany the text, artists etch illustrations into the hard stone panels.
BBC
2
At last I took it into my head to etch once more.
Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
3
Dragging the diamond, digging into the glass, I etch her gray hairs.
Tell-all
4
A Myrddraal's blood would etch steel if left on it very long.
Knife of dreams
5
I wondered how long it had taken the animal to etch that tag.
John Dies at the End
6
Using your saw blade, etch a floor plan in the snow.
Climbing Magazine
7
For isn't that the image the care sector should etch in our minds?
The Guardian
8
Noble metal nanoparticles were used to locally etch the silicon substrate.
Pubmed
9
Two tries in three minutes, etch the victory into the ledger.
The Irish Times
10
My husband suggested that perhaps Mr. H. Manesse might etch the portrait satisfactorily.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton / An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Mem...
11
She sat unmoving and let snow etch her outline in deepening clean whiteness.
Winter’s Bone
12
He ceased to etch, and evidently suffered from the persecution madness.
Promenades of an Impressionist
13
She could still etch her name on the monuments of Thebes.
Nefertiti
14
They would etch the squares into a stone and play away.
The charlemagne pursuit
15
Why did God put spots on the pansy, or etch the fern leaf?
The Abominations of Modern Society
16
In the last general elections, they could barely etch it past 1%.
The South African
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Translations for etch
Portuguese
gravar
Spanish
grabar
Etch through the time
Etch across language varieties
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