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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: grave 'to cut' (11-21 centuries), from Old English grafan

engrave

 verb
     
Related topics: Visual, Design
en‧grave [transitive]
1AVD to cut words or designs on metal, wood, glass etc
engrave something on something
Their names are engraved on a stone tablet.
engrave something with something
a pendant engraved with a simple design
2

be engraved in/on your memory/mind/heart

literary to be impossible to forget
—engraver noun [countable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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