Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of cleaning a ship's bottom by scraping, burning, etc.
- noun . The act of laying in a grave; burial.
- noun The act of engraving, or of cutting lines or figures in metal, stone, wood, etc.
- noun 3. That which is graved or carved; an engraving.
- noun Inscription or impression, as upon the mind or heart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.
- noun (Naut.) See under Dock.
- noun The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, especially by incision or in intaglio.
- noun rare That which is graved or carved.
- noun Impression, as upon the mind or heart.
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- verb Present participle of
grave .
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Examples
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There are the unkin, people who, through a traumatic or transcendent experience, become dislodged from reality, discovering their true name--their 'graving'--and becoming gods, angels and demons.
The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan Abigail Nussbaum 2007
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There always someone graving foa a position that makes them selfis and liers ...
Poll: Lowering deficit more important than boosting economy 2009
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And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
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And he received the gold at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool and made a molten calf, and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you up out of Egypt.”
The Ten Commandments David Hazony 2010
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It is time to send the President defense budgets that have entire programs terminated, sort of like during the Korean War, when the GOP scrapped the USS America in its graving dock.
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Chris Weitz Movie something different than other Directors movie,they always trying to graving a massage to public.
NEW MOON Director Chris Weitz is Hiring THE GARDENER – Collider.com 2009
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Bridges, tunnels, scows, tugs, graving docks, container ships, all the great works of transport, trade and linkage were directed in the end to this culminating structure.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Bridges, tunnels, scows, tugs, graving docks, container ships, all the great works of transport, trade and linkage were directed in the end to this culminating structure.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Those of us who cross the Hood Canal Bridge daily are still gritting our teeth on the graving dock fiasco in Port Angeles, where workers unearthed a few bones in the tidelands during preparation for pontoon construction.
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The work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured into the channel a concentrated prose which bites.
Les Miserables 2008
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