different between engrave vs ungrave

English

Alternative forms

• ingrave

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???e?v/
• Rhymes: -e?v
• Hyphenation: en?grave

Etymology 1

From earlier ingrave, equivalent to en- +? grave (“to carve, engrave”). More at grave.

Verb

engrave (third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved)

1. (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.

   • Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

2. (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (carve (text or symbols) into): carve, etch, inscribe

Translations

Etymology 2

From en- +? grave.

Verb

engrave (third-person singular simple present engraves, present participle engraving, simple past and past participle engraved)

1. (obsolete) To put in a grave, to bury.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     So both agree their bodies to engraue; / The great earthes wombe they open to the sky [...].

Anagrams

• Grevena, avenger, vernage

French

Verb

engrave

1. first-person singular present indicative of engraver
2. third-person singular present indicative of engraver
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of engraver
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of engraver
5. second-person singular imperative of engraver

Anagrams

• vengera

English

Etymology

un- +? grave

Verb

ungrave (third-person singular simple present ungraves, present participle ungraving, simple past and past participle ungraved)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To raise or remove from the grave.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     I scorn to ungrave thy dust

Synonyms

• exhume
• disinter
• untomb