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Meanings of etched in English

Cut or impressed into a surface.

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Usage of etched in English
1
Atop a sand-etched stone slab, an ornate canopic jar held Chani's water.
The Winds of Dune
2
For a moment its motion through the night is etched in fire.
The thing from another world
3
Water beaded and ran from the Wind symbol etched into its iron.
Return of the Crimson Guard
4
The scars of the genocide remain deeply etched in the Rwandan psyche.
Reuters
5
She said the horrors of the day are etched into her memory.
Radio NZ
6
His sensitive face in the lamplight was etched with lines of tragedy.
A Poor Wise Man
7
The first was a thin silver case etched in a marvelous design.
Servant of a dark god
8
Images of whipped slaves' backs have been permanently etched into my mind.
Ebony
9
Even the marks Drayfitt had etched into the stone floor were gone.
Legends of the dragonrealm, vol ii
10
In about an hour, everything was marked out in precise diamond-etched targets.
Winter’s Tale
11
A box score is a precisely etched miniature of the sport itself.
The new yorker
12
His drive, determination and self-belief were etched all over his 60 years.
News.com.au
13
The lines of a white-clad figure etched themselves against the cave wall.
Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
14
They were deft artists in picture-writings, which they etched on the rocks.
Canyons of the Colorado
15
The afternoon sun etched our shadows on the whitewashed wall behind us.
Defenders of Democracy / Contributions from representative men a...
16
The rocks there were etched with pictographs perhaps a thousand years old.
No country for old men
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Etched across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common