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Showing words for CARVING using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Carving

carving, craving

6 Letter Words for Carving

arcing, caring, caving, gravic, grivna, racing, raving, varing

5 Letter Words for Carving

acing, agric, agrin, argin, cairn, cavin, cigar, craig, crain, crang, garni, grain, incra, invar, naric, navig, nigra, ravin, vanir, vicar, vigna, vinca, virga, vraic

4 Letter Words for Carving

agin, agni, airn, aivr, arni, cain, cair, cang, carn, cira, crag, cran, crig, crin, gain, gair, gari, garn, girn, gnar, gran, grav, grin, inca, incr, inga, iran, nagi, naig, narc, navi, ngai, ragi, rain, rang, riga, ring, riva, vagi, vain, vair, vang, vari, vica, viga, vina

3 Letter Words for Carving

agr, ain, air, anc, arc, arg, arn, avg, avn, cag, cai, can, car, cav, cia, cig, cir, civ, cva, gan, gar, gin, gra, ign, inc, ing, inv, ira, iva, nag, nar, nav, nig, rag, rai, ran, ria, rig, rin, riv, rna, vac, vag, van, var, vcr, via, vic, vig, vin

Definitions for Carving

[1] the act of fashioning or producing by cutting into or shaping solid material, as wood.
[2] a carved design or figure.
[3] to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
[4] to form from a solid material by cutting: to carve a statue out of stone.
[5] to cut into slices or pieces, as a roast of meat.
[6] to decorate with designs or figures cut on the surface: The top of the box was beautifully carved with figures of lions and unicorns.
[7] to cut (a design, figures, etc.) on a surface: Figures of lions and unicorns were carved on the top of the box.
[8] to make or create for oneself (often followed by out ): He carved out a career in business.
[9] to carve figures, designs, etc.
[10] to cut meat.
[11] a figure or design produced by carving stone, wood, etc Related adjective: glyptic
[12] (tr) to cut or chip in order to form something to carve wood
[13] to decorate or form (something) by cutting or chipping to carve statues
[14] to slice (meat) into pieces to carve a turkey

Words related to Carving

fashion, divide, hack, chisel, shape, slice, engrave, etch, mold, sculpt, trim, cleave, hew, indent, form, pattern, chip, stipple, tool, incise

Words nearby Carving

carven, carver, carver chair, carver, george washington, carvery, carving, carving fork, carving knife, cary, caryatid, caryl

Origin of Carving

ebefore 1000; Middle English kerven, Old English ceorfan to cut; cognate with Middle Low German kerven, German kerben, Greek gráphein to mark, write; see graph

Other words from Carving

carv·er , noun
re·carve , verb, re·carved, re·carv·ing.
sem·i·carved , adjective
un·carved , adjective
un·der·carve , verb (used with object), un·der·carved, un·der·carv·ing.
well-carved , adjective

Word origin for Carving

eOld English ceorfan; related to Old Frisian kerva, Middle High German kerben to notch

Synonyms for Carving

chisel, divide, engrave, etch, fashion, hack, mold, sculpt, shape, slice, chip, cleave, dissect, dissever, form, grave, hew, incise, indent, model, mould, pattern, rough-hew, slash, stipple, sunder, tool, trim, whittle, block out, insculpt