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say it: ech
etch is a verb meaning "make an etching of". It is pronounced /ˈɛtʃ/ — ech. It carries 5 recorded senses.
cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible
“a face etched with pain”
“the leafless branches etched against the sky”
carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
“engrave a letter”
art
selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for etch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.