Definition of "engrave" [en•grave]

• To carve, cut, or etch into a material: engraved the champion's name on the trophy. (verb-transitive)
• To carve, cut, or etch a design or letters into: engraved the silver watch with my monogram. (verb-transitive)
• To carve, cut, or etch into a block or surface used for printing. (verb-transitive)
• To print from a block or plate made by such a process. (verb-transitive)
• To impress deeply as if by carving or etching: The experience was engraved into his memory. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Most English translations give "entomb" for "begraben," but I've been struck by the way the English word "engrave" includes the same root."
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• "There is one solo in which the soprano sings that she wants to "engrave" the crucified Jesus in her heart; the German pun is amazing in itself, but the music is so ravishing that I find myself caught up in its imaginative reality: it arouses feelings of tenderness and grief and devotion that I can't say I want to reject."