engrave

Other forms of engrave

past tense

engraved·

present participle

engraving·

third person

engraves·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about engrave

What does engrave mean?

engrave means "carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in engrave?

engrave has 2 syllables: en-grave. The stress falls on "grave". In IPA it is /ɪnˈɡɹeɪv/.

What is another word for engrave?

Close synonyms include scratch, grave, inscribe, etch, etch. 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 engrave a common word?

engrave 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.

What rhymes with engrave?

3 words rhyme with engrave. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.