graving

/หˆษกษนeษชvษชล‹/

IPA: /G R EY1 V IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To dig.

  2. 2

    To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.

  3. 3

    To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.

    โ€œto grave an imageโ€

  4. 4

    To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.

  5. 5

    To entomb; to bury.

  6. 6

    To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.

verb
  1. 1

    To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch โ€” so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

noun
  1. 1

    The act of cleaning a ship's bottom.

  2. 2

    An engraving.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grave, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/graving