CARVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carved mean? 

• CARVED (adjective)
  The adjective CARVED has 1 sense:

1. made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary)

  Familiarity information: CARVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary)

Synonyms:

carved; carven

Context example:

stood as if carven from stone

Similar:

engraved; etched; graven; incised; inscribed (cut or impressed into a surface)

graven; sculpted; sculptured (cut into a desired shape)

lapidarian (inscribed on stone)

sliced ((used of meat) cut into pieces for serving)

Domain category:

literature (creative writing of recognized artistic value)

Antonym:

uncarved (not carved)

 Context examples 

After the sediment hardened, wind carved the layered rock into the towering Mount Sharp, which Curiosity is climbing today.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)

The floor was of polished tiles, with a square of red and black diapered Flemish carpet in the centre; and many settees, cushions, folding chairs, and carved bancals littered all over it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These cavities are carved out when jets from the supermassive black hole generate shock waves that push the gas outward and create huge holes.

(Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions, NASA)

He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Jupiter's magnetosphere — the volume carved out in the solar wind where the planet's magnetic field dominates —extends up to nearly 2 million miles (3 million kilometers).

(Juno Peers Inside a Giant, NASA)

He sat, with that carved grin on his face, looking at the fire, as I looked at him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There’s the Treasury on the left, and the Horse Guards, and the Admiralty, where the stone dolphins are carved above the gate.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She advanced and examined it closely: it was of cedar, curiously inlaid with some darker wood, and raised, about a foot from the ground, on a carved stand of the same.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A pair of silk stockings, that pretty carved fan, and a lovely blue sash.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In fact, the nebula contains a prominent cavity that was carved out by an energetic binary star system.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)