graven

Meanings

Adjective

• carved, engraved
• Something fashioned by man, or something man-made. Anything made by man's hands.
• Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.

Verb

• To make graven or engraved
• To make or become grave

Origin

• From Middle English graven, igraven, from Old English grafen, ġegrafen, from Proto-Germanic *grabanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *grabaną.
• From graven above.
• From grave + -en.