incise

Verb

Meaning

To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pierce nick mark lance cleave chase whittle hew gash cut etch chisel engrave break split

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Antonyms

cleave group headland focus join link

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Hypernyms

cut

Hyponyms

scratch worry groove slit notch girdle

Derivatives

incised incising

Examples

Surgeons use laparoscopy or laparotomy to gain access to the pelvis and can either incise the affected Fallopian and remove only the pregnancy ( salpingostomy ) or remove the affected tube with the pregnancy ( salpingectomy ). Source: Internet

Even the State is not allowed to violate personal data, intimacy, private life, honor and image (article 5, incise X). Source: Internet

Previously, any letter or symbol had been called a sarat (from *sar "incise"). Source: Internet

With care it is possible to apply a second coat of engobe of a different colour to the first and to incise decoration through the second coat to expose the colour of the underlying coat. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

incircumspectly incirrate incisal incised incised meander incised sculpture