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View synonyms for graven

graven

[ grey-vuhn ]

verb

  1. a past participle of grave 3.


adjective

  1. deeply impressed; firmly fixed.
  2. carved; sculptured:

    a graven idol.

graven

/ ˈɡreɪvən /

verb

  1. See grave
    a past participle of grave 3


adjective

  1. strongly fixed

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Other Words From

  • non·graven adjective
  • un·graven adjective
  • well-graven adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of graven1

1200–50; Middle English. See grave 3, -en 3

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Example Sentences

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.

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