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graven

/grey-vuhn/US // ˈgreɪ vən //UK // (ˈɡreɪvən) //

纹章,纹饰,纹样,纹路

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : a past participle of grave.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : deeply impressed; firmly fixed.
    • : carved; sculptured: a graven idol.

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Examples

  • Even when Levon Helm was young, he had a voice that spoke to you with the authority of something graven in stone.

  • They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god.

  • And I will make thy bulwarks of jasper: and thy gates of graven stones, and all thy borders of desirable stones.

  • What doth the graven thing avail, because the maker thereof hath graven it, a molten, and a false image?

  • Of all these graven images existed, carved by men's hands,--some in the form of animals, like the winged bulls of Nineveh.

  • "Ay, with the cross graven on it," I answered; and my words checked a laugh that was on Evan's lips.