0 past simple and past participle of engrave
1 to cut words, pictures, or patterns into the surface of metal, stone, etc.:
It is clear that not even every doctor has this message firmly engraved on his mind.
The assemblage includes numerous items made of hammered and engraved sheet gold, including disks, ornaments, masks, miniature masks, and effigy spear points.
Recordings through a microphone were engraved on shellac records, covered in wax.
This terminology does not conform to the stratigraphic code of nomenclature but these terms are deeply engraved in literature and are being widely used.
Permanent grating is engraved onto the surface from which the incoming light wave is scattered.
The verse engraved onto the monument has partially weathered and it has been impossible to trace its origin.
Incised or engraved dark monochrome wares, frequently decorated only on the upper half of the vessel.
The cryptograms combine poetic texts, engraved initial letters (sometimes two to a page), staves, standard musical notation and special symbols.