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ingrave

name · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

name

Meaning 1

A village in Herongate and Ingrave parish, Brentwood borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6292).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

verb

Meaning 2

To bury; to place in a grave.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

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3

verb

Meaning 3

Obsolete form of engrave.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, obsolete

Examples

  • 1991, Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella (translators), The Lives of the Artists, [from 1550, G. Vasari, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri], page 91, This work, with its border decorations ingraved with festoons of fruit and animals all cast in metal, cost twenty-two thousand florins, while the bronze doors themselves weighed thirty-four thousand pounds.

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History

Etymology

From in- + grave. Compare engrave.