chip at

1. 1.

   engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface

   “carve one's name into the bark”

   Synonymscarve

   Broadercut

   Narrowerchiselscratchengrave

Questions about chip at

What does chip at mean?

chip at means "engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface".

What is another word for chip at?

Close synonyms include carve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chip at a common word?

chip at is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.