incise

incise
    v 1: make an incision into by carving or cutting
    

Incise \In*cise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Incised}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Incising}.] [L. incisus, p. p. of incidere to incise: cf.
   F. inciser. See {Incide}.]
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   1. To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to
      engrave.
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            I on thy grave this epitaph incise.   --T. Carew.
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   2. To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut
      off.
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220 Moby Thesaurus words for "incise":
      Vandyke, abrade, amputate, autolithograph, ax, bark,
      be a printmaker, bisect, blaze, blemish, bloody, book, breach,
      break, broach, burn, butcher, calendar, canal, canalize, carve,
      catalog, chafe, chalk, chalk up, chamfer, channel, character,
      check, check in, chink, chip, chisel, chop, chronicle, claw,
      cleave, corrugate, crack, craze, crease, crenellate, crenulate,
      crevasse, cribble, crimp, crosshatch, cut, cut apart, cut away,
      cut in two, cut off, cut open, dado, dichotomize, dike, dispart,
      dissever, ditch, divaricate, divide, docket, enchase, engrave,
      enroll, enscroll, enter, excise, file, fill out, fissure, flute,
      fly open, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, furrow, gall, gap, gash,
      goffer, gouge, grave, groove, gully, hack, halve, hatch, hew, hurt,
      impanel, indent, index, injure, inscribe, insert, jag, jigsaw,
      jot down, knurl, lacerate, lance, lay open, line, list, lithograph,
      log, machicolate, maim, make a memorandum, make a note,
      make an entry, make mincemeat of, make out, make prints, mark,
      mark down, matriculate, maul, mill, minute, mutilate, nick, notch,
      note, note down, ope, open, open up, pare, part, picot, pierce,
      pink, place upon record, pleat, plow, poll, post, post up, print,
      prune, puncture, put down, put in writing, put on paper,
      put on tape, rabbet, record, reduce to writing, register, rend,
      rent, rifle, rift, rip, rive, run, rupture, rut, savage, saw,
      scald, scallop, scarify, scissor, scorch, score, scotch, scrape,
      scratch, scuff, sculpture, separate, serrate, set down, sever,
      skin, slash, slice, slit, slot, snip, split, sprain, spread,
      spread out, spring open, stab, stick, stipple, strain, streak,
      striate, sunder, swing open, tabulate, take down, tap, tape,
      tape-record, tear, tear open, throw open, tool, tooth, traumatize,
      trench, trough, videotape, whittle, wound, wrench, wrinkle, write,
      write down, write in, write out, write up