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Graven

To dig.

📖 Definitions of "Graven"

verb

1
To dig.
2
To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
3
To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
"to grave an image"
4
To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

adjective

1
Carved, engraved
2
Something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands.
3
Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.

8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
inscribed	written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface
incised	(biology) cut, particularly with a V shape
etched	Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
carven	Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done.
sculpted	Well shaped, as a good sculpture is.
engraved	Made by engraving.
carved	Of an object, made by carving.
sculptured	Made like a sculpture.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
engravedverb	Made by engraving.
etched	Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
sculptured	Made like a sculpture.
sculpted	Well shaped, as a good sculpture is.
carven	Made by carving, especially when intricately or artistically done.
carved	Of an object, made by carving.
incised	(biology) cut, particularly with a V shape
inscribed	written (by handwriting, printing, engraving, or carving) on or in a surface
intergraven	(rare) engraved or carved between
insculpt	(obsolete, poetic) sculpted; carved
raisedverb	(cooking) Leavened, especially with yeast.
incrustateverb	(archaic) Encrusted
incusenoun	An impression hammered or pressed (onto a coin).
encrusted	Having an incrustation.
enriven	(obsolete) riven; cleaved
champlevénoun	(art) Having the ground engraved or cut out in the parts to be enamelled; inlaid in depressions made in the ground; said of a kind of enamel work in which depressions made in the surface are filled with enamel pastes, which are then fired.
a jour	decorated with translucent, pierced, or openwork designs (used of carving, metalwork, lace, drawnwork, or cutwork)
inlaid	(of a design) Set into a surface in a decorative pattern.
shrined	Enshrined.
embrasured	Having embrasures.