Dictionary Entry
carve
carve is a 5-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cut.
- 2transitive verb
To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
- 3transitive verb
To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
- 4transitive verb
To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
- 5transitive verb
To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
- 6transitive verb
To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- 7transitive verb
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- 8intransitive verb
To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
- 9intransitive verb
To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
- 10noun
A carucate.
- 11verb
cut to pieces
"Father carved the ham"
- 12verb
form by carving
"Carve a flower from the ice"
- 13verb
engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
"carve one's name into the bark"
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