carve
Plural: carves
Verb
Verb Forms: carved, carving, carves
- To cut material to form an object or design.
- form by carving
- "Carve a flower from the ice"
- engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
- "carve one's name into the bark"
- cut to pieces
- "Father carved the ham"
- To cut.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- 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.
- To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Noun
- A carucate.
- The act of carving
Examples
- Give that turkey a careful carve.
- She tried to CARVE out space on the crowded Words With Friends board for a long word.
- to carve a name into a tree
- You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
chip at, cut up
Scrabble Score: 10
carve: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcarve: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
carve: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary