different between graven vs engrave

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?v?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English graven, igraven, from Old English grafen, ?egrafen, from Proto-Germanic *grabanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *graban? (“to dig, trench”).

Verb

graven

1. past participle of grave

Adjective

graven (not comparable)

1. carved, engraved
   • Old Testament (Exodus 20:4 KJV)

     Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.

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.

Translations

Etymology 2

From graven (adjective) above.

Verb

graven (third-person singular simple present gravens, present participle gravening, simple past and past participle gravened)

1. (transitive, archaic) To make graven or engraved

Etymology 3

From grave (adjective) +? -en.

Verb

graven (third-person singular simple present gravens, present participle gravening, simple past and past participle gravened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become grave (serious or sombre)

Catalan

Verb

graven

1. third-person plural present indicative form of gravar

Danish

Noun

graven c

1. definite singular of grav

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ra?v?(n)/
• Hyphenation: gra?ven
• Rhymes: -a?v?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch gr?ven, from Old Dutch gravan, from Proto-West Germanic *graban, from Proto-Germanic *graban?.

Verb

graven

1. (transitive or intransitive) To dig physically.
2. To search for information.

Inflection

Synonyms

• delven
• spitten

Derived terms

Related terms

• graf

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

graven

1. Plural form of graf

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

graven

1. Plural form of graaf

Anagrams

• vragen

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch gravan

Verb

gr?ven

1. To dig.
2. To bury.

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: graven
• Limburgish: grave

Further reading

• “graven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “graven (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• grava

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r???n?/
• Rhymes: -???n?
• Hyphenation: grav?en

Noun

graven m or f

1. definite masculine singular of grav

Noun

graven m

1. definite singular of grave

Spanish

Verb

graven

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of gravar.
2. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of gravar.
3. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of gravar.

Swedish

Noun

graven

1. definite singular of grav

Anagrams

• vargen

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