carve

Meaning

1. To cut.
2. To cut meat in order to serve it.
3. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
4. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
5. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

carve

engrave

cut

slice

sculpt

chisel

whittle

chop

hash

sculpture

cut up

cut out

write

grave

hew

mince

notch

etch

incise

pare

scratch

sever

inscribe

chip

inlay

tattoo

dig

shape

chip at

pattern

slash

gouge

slit

decorate

carve wood

clip

chase

shear

cut off

facet

hack

dig out

abrade

bite

cut fine

chop up

fret

perforate

rip open

emboss

enchase

enscribe

sculp

draw

paint

trace

slice off

work stone

nip

pluck

slacken

delve into

grub

poke

rake

fritter

parcel out

sliver

dawn

score

scribe

shave wood

carved wooden door

door

shutter

act of carving

chip away

work

copy

cavern

character

groove

rout

trench

cross

cut away

cut back

cut to

edit

edit out

fix

jab

mow

nip off

operate on

pare down

pierce

pinch

reduce

resect

retrench

scissor

slice up

snip

snip off

spay

stab

tease

traverse

trim

rip

pick

fell

hackle

saw

strip

imprint

mine

scrape

cut stone

hew out

disassemble

dismember

grub out

slice into

saw off

carving

cutthroat

sharpen

stone

rust

compel

stop

form

make

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɑɹv/

From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).