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.

Chip at — meaning, 1 synonym and examples

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
“carve one's name into the bark”
Synonymscarve
Broadercut
Narrowerchisel scratch engrave

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What does chip at mean?: chip at means "engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface".

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