Meaning & use
graven
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Carved or engraved, especially into stone or wood; also used of an expression fixed and unmoving, as if carved.
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The Ten Commandments forbid worshiping any graven image.
His face wore a graven expression of grief that never softened.
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"Graven" is the archaic past participle of the verb "grave," meaning to carve, a sense now mostly preserved in the phrase "graven image."
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carvedengravedsculpted
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