carve

verb

\ ˈkärv

carved; carving

Definition of carve

transitive verb

1 : to cut with care or precision carved fretwork

2 : to make or get by or as if by cutting —often used with out carve out a career

3 : to cut into pieces or slices carved the turkey

intransitive verb

1 : to cut up and serve meat

2 : to work as a sculptor or engraver

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Examples of carve in a Sentence

We carved an ice sculpture. Who is going to carve the turkey? He carved while I made the gravy.

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According to Times reporter Elizabeth Patton, the shoes took a total of four days to create and were infused with two colors of ink, then carved by hand into undulating curves. — Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, "Glow-in-the-Dark Heels Are Here to Make Your Childhood Dreams Come True," 22 Jan. 2019 One problem, for a while, was that the only place to connect a railroad from South America to U.S. railroads seemed to be the Royal Gorge, a 10-yard-wide canyon in Colorado carved out by the Arkansas River. — Charles R. Morris, WSJ, "‘The Longest Line on the Map’ Review: The End of the Road," 8 Jan. 2019 Now the Grinch, green and scruffy, lives with his dog Max in an isolated home carved into the side of a snowy cliff high above Whoville, a town that really loves Christmas. — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, "Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Grinch in the new movie. It’s pretty fun!," 9 Nov. 2018 Local artist Eirik Johnson spent years studying and photographing the stuff people carve into trees. — The Seattle Times, "Everything you need to know about the hottest tickets in town: Seattle events for November 2018," 26 Oct. 2018 And the sarcophagus bears no name carved into the stone—just two lion heads. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Ancient “comic strip” depicts the founding of a Roman city," 10 Oct. 2018 To work off your meal, descend into caves at La Jolla Cove, where waves have carved pathways into sandstone cliffs, or explore the immense Balboa Park. — Condé Nast Traveler, "The Best Cities in the U.S.: 2018 Readers' Choice Awards," 9 Oct. 2018 This spotlight on the Farnese Sarcophagus, carved by Romans around 225, reveals the work’s original colors and other scientific discoveries, and features a new, 3-D digital projection by artists Paul Kaiser and Marc Downie, of OpenEndedGroup. — BostonGlobe.com, "The Ticket: What’s happening in the local arts world," 15 June 2018 What was with the maze carved into the scalp shown in the first episode of this season? — The Atlantic, "Westworld: Ghost Nation, Revealed," 10 June 2018

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