Etched
adj, verb
adj, verb ·1 syllable ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of etch form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
"[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam."
- 2 Toned and with a well-defined musculature.
Adjective
- 1 cut or impressed into a surface wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"The incident was etched in his memory."