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carve English

Meaning carve meaning

What does carve mean?
Definitions in simple English

carve Verb

— cut wood or stone into a designed shape. — cut cooked meat into slices for eating.

carve

— verb form by carving Carve a flower from the ice — verb engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface carve one's name into the bark — verb cut to pieces Father carved the ham

Synonyms carve synonyms

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carve English » English

engrave cut slice sculpt chisel whittle chop sculpture hash cut up write cut out notch mince incise hew grave etch sever scratch pare inscribe inlay chip tattoo shape pattern dig chip at slit slash shear gouge decorate clip chase carve wood work stone work trim trench traverse trace tease strip stop stone stab spay snip off

Topics carve topics

What do people use carve to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Art

Sculpture
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with stone
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with wood
Work and occupation Occupation

Art
States Quality Shape Round

Concave

Conjugation carve conjugation

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carve · verb

Examples carve examples

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Simple sentences

Can you carve the chicken?
The statue is already present in the stone. You just need to carve away the parts you want to discard.
Do you want to carve the bird?
Tom began to carve the turkey.

Movie subtitles

I placed a Geass on her which makes her carve a symbol on this wall every day.
Why, they think they can cut alimony off me like you'd carve blubber off a whale!
But if you think you'll carve yourself some sort of niche with these Germans. Let me point out that we too tried to do business with them.
Okay, carve the turkey.
I want to carve it out of rock with my bare hands.
But if I so much as bow to a lady in the street her relatives start reaching for daggers and wanna carve me up.
To carve out an empire and be proclaimed an emperor greater even than Charlemagne.
He may not, as unvalued persons do, carve for himself, for on his choice depends the safety and the health of this whole state.
You must carve an exceptional position for yourself. and have your dear sister profit by it. Am I right, Germaine?
If there's a single trouser button missing from any of those men when I get back, I'll carve you up.
Who'll carve?
Carve chief's feather on lid.
Did you carve those tablets to become a prince over us?
Why don't we carve our initials on the trees?
Tarzan will carve.
They think they can cut alimony off me like carve blubber off a whale!
You must carve an exceptional position for yourself. and have your dear sister profit by it.
And then I began to carve. slowly and carefully.
It took me a whole month just to carve her hands.
Want me to carve?
Each day, we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture.
LOTS OF KIDS CARVE THEIR NAME HERE.
You can send thousands of men off to fight each other. You carve up kingdoms with your sword, and conquer other tyrants.
Let's carve Fred up a bit.
When a king is born, they carve that snake on him.
I'm hungry. Want me to carve?
Like a fowl I shall carve you up small.
Likely I'll stay drunk for a month. I won't even remember the fancy gals I dally with or the men I carve up just out of pure cussedness any more than I'll remember you.
To carve his niche in the edifice of time.
We'll offer the spectacle of a dramatic death,.. which might carve in the popular imagination,.. so that they continue to hate, hate, hate, more and more!
Many people don't know it, but to carve lamb, you have to stand up, isn't that so?
He used to carve 'em up.
I thought if I could carve something on this side as beautiful as that on that side.
Alfred, you carve.

News and current affairs

It took centuries for science to carve out its sphere of autonomy, always a relative one, from politics and religion alike.
Their decision will one day be recognized as a victory for Europe over those who preferred to carve up the eurozone, rather than give Greece the chance to start anew within it.
To be sure, monarchs - and especially their spouses, heirs, and relations - often carve out niches for themselves, from wildlife protection to sports and charities.
Ashdown also revealed how Croatian president Franjo Tudjman said at a dinner party in 1995 that Milosevic and he had agreed to carve up Bosnia.
Today's political momentum should be used to carve out a strong role for the IMF beyond the crisis.
But the ECB and the Stability and Growth Pact being what they are, both German parties are what they are: a sculptor who has promised to carve a marble statue overnight but has lost his chisel.
But while the old multicultural trading cities of Aleppo and Mosul might never truly recover and blossom again, that should not be used as an excuse to carve up the region along new lines, at the cost of rivers of blood.
In Yugoslavia, the Slovenes, Serbs, and Croats managed to carve out independent republics in the early 1990's, but the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina were less successful.
China has a choice: it can either accept Western values, or it can try to carve out an East Asian sphere to insulate itself from them.
But this imported hybrid war - and Russia's bid to carve up Ukraine - is far from over.

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