INSCRIBE Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

inscribe

verb

in-ˈskrīb

as in to etch

to cut (as letters or designs) on a hard surface paid a jeweler to inscribe their names and wedding date on their wedding rings

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Relevance

as in to enroll

to add (a person) to a list or roll as a participant or member inscribed the couple in the society of sustaining donors to the museum

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as in to enter

to put (someone or something) on a list inscribed his name on the list of those to be executed

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Recent Examples of inscribe Blue-and-white minibuses, inscribed with misspelt movie quotes and popular local sayings, snaked through the congestion on the narrow road in front of them. —

Literary Hub, 27 Mar. 2026 Envelopes inscribed with cursive text, luggage cart run-ups at London’s King’s Cross Station and sweeping landscape shots glimpsed through a train window are also likely to get the hearts of diehard fans pounding. —

Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026 Scattered around the garden are various architectural fragments and inscribed stones of great antiquity. —

Ben Lerner, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026 See historical objects and displays that shed light on an early road network still in use today, iron products made at pre-Revolutionary War iron works, and inscribed boundary stones marking estates owned by prominent Annapolitans. —

Staff Report, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for inscribe

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As waveguide smart glasses, the G2 uses flat, clear lenses with waveguides etched into them that redirect light projected from microprojectors built into the frames.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 Apr. 2026
Today, this history is etched into a landscape pockmarked with deep craters and atomic lakes, contaminated with radioactive isotopes cesium-137, strontium-90 and plutonium-239 that can remain dangerous for thousands of years.

— Magdalena Stawkowski, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026