What is "etched" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does etched mean in English? Meaning of etched definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "etched" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "etched": cut or impressed into a surface

Adjective

  • Meaning: cut or impressed into a surface
  • Example: an incised design engraved invitations
  • Synonyms: engraved etched graven incised inscribed
  • Similar: carved carven
  • Adjective: Cut or dug into the surface as by etching. 2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, The New York Times: [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, The New York Times: [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.
  • Synonyms:

    portray, depict, ingrain, stamp, inscribe, imprint, engrave, incise, delineate, represent, execute, cut, erode, outline, picture, impress, describe, reduce, corrode, compose, furrow, grave, define, eat into, set forth,

    Antonyms:

    neglect, build, confuse,

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    etched in English: etched
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