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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To cut.
- transitive verb. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
- transitive verb. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
- transitive verb. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.
- transitive verb. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
- transitive verb. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- transitive verb. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- intransitive verb. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.
- intransitive verb. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.
- noun. A carucate.
- verb. cut to pieces
"Father carved the ham"
- verb. form by carving
"Carve a flower from the ice"
- verb. engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
"carve one's name into the bark"
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in carve:
Common word forms
carved, carver, carves, carving
Words from these letters
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