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INCISED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incised mean?
• INCISED (adjective)
The adjective INCISED has 3 senses:
1. sharply and deeply indented
2. cut into with a sharp instrument
3. cut or impressed into a surface
Familiarity information: INCISED used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sharply and deeply indented
Similar:
compound (composed of more than one part)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cut into with a sharp instrument
Similar:
cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Cut or impressed into a surface
Synonyms:
engraved; etched; graven; incised; inscribed
Context example:
engraved invitations
Similar:
carved; carven (made for or formed by carving ('carven' is archaic or literary))
Context examples
“Is it not possible,” I suggested, “that the incised wound upon Straker may have been caused by his own knife in the convulsive struggles which follow any brain injury?”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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