Thesaurus results for CHISEL

chisel

verb

Definition of chisel next

as in to pluck

to rob by the use of trickery or threats ruthlessly chiseled other students out of their lunch money

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Recent Examples of chisel Above the altar the names of the three documents had been chiseled into a large gray marble panel and then gilded. —

Literary Hub, 13 May 2026 That was until this Dutch upstart with his European aesthetic, lively and colorful stores and eye-popping marketing campaigns began to chisel away at their market share. —

Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 4 May 2026 The text was first reviewed by three clerics and then copied by scribes onto marble for stonemasons to chisel. —

Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 May 2026 The religious men took up residence among the locals—people who spent their days tending cows and sheep, churning butter, weeding onions and turnips, scouring the forests for mushrooms, and chiseling sculptures from the local limestone. —

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His torso and thighs grow eye-poppingly muscular beneath their skimpy fur-and-leather togs—a development that does not go unnoticed by a warrior named Red Hair, who plucks the young hunk from his post and tosses him into the prime time of the gladiator pit.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
As with the studio version, the track began with Lifeson plucking out a delicate intro on a nylon-string guitar before blasting into monster electric riffs.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026