incise

Definitions


[ɪnˈsʌɪz], (Verb)

Definitions:
- mark or decorate (an object or surface) with a cut or cuts
(e.g: a button incised with a skull)


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Origin:
mid 16th century: from French inciser, from Latin incis- ‘cut into, engraved’, from the verb incidere, from in- ‘into’ + caedere ‘to cut’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries