Etch

If you don't wash away the acid quickly, it will etch its way into the metal.

The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.

There are many such empty terms to be found in some learned writers, to which they had recourse to etch out their system.

Black Oats are commonly sown upon an Etch Crop, or on a Lay which they plow up in January, when the Earth is moist, taking care to turn the Turf well, and to lay it even and flat.