Definition of "incise" [in•cise]

• To cut into, as with a sharp instrument: incised the tablet with chisels; a plateau that had been deeply incised by streams. (verb-transitive)
• To engrave (designs or writing, for example) into a surface; carve. (verb-transitive)
• To engrave designs, writing, or other marks into. (verb-transitive)

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• "To incise the design into the clay, I used scraffito tools on leather-hard clay."
• "The root of the verb comes from the Latin cise or cide, meaning to cut, as in incise, circumcise and most importantly in this context, to decide."