'Incise' definitions:
Definition of 'incise'
(from WordNet)
verb
Make an incision into by carving or cutting
Definition of 'Incise'
From: GCIDE
- Incise \In*cise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incised; p. pr. & vb. n. Incising.] [L. incisus, p. p. of incidere to incise: cf. F. inciser. See Incide.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. [1913 Webster]
- I on thy grave this epitaph incise. --T. Carew. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'incise'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrade,
- amputate,
- autolithograph,
- ax,
- bark,
- be a printmaker,
- bisect,
- blaze,
- blemish,
- bloody,
- book,
- breach,
- break,
- broach,
- burn,
- butcher,
- calendar,
- canal,
- canalize,
- carve,
- catalog,
- chafe,
- chalk,
- chalk up,
- chamfer,
- channel,
- character,
- check,
- check in,
- chink,
- chip,
- chisel,
- chop,
- chronicle,
- claw,
- cleave,
- corrugate,
- crack,
- craze,
- crease,
- crenellate,
- crenulate,
- crevasse,
- cribble,
- crimp,
- crosshatch,
- cut,
- cut apart,
- cut away,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- cut open,
- dado,
- dichotomize,
- dike,
- dispart,
- dissever,
- ditch,
- divaricate,
- divide,
- docket,
- enchase,
- engrave,
- enroll,
- enscroll,
- enter,
- excise,
- file,
- fill out,
- fissure,
- flute,
- fly open,
- fracture,
- fray,
- frazzle,
- fret,
- furrow,
- gall,
- gap,
- gash,
- goffer,
- gouge,
- grave,
- groove,
- gully,
- hack,
- halve,
- hatch,
- hew,
- hurt,
- impanel,
- indent,
- index,
- injure,
- inscribe,
- insert,
- jag,
- jigsaw,
- jot down,
- knurl,
- lacerate,
- lance,
- lay open,
- line,
- list,
- lithograph,
- log,
- machicolate,
- maim,
- make a memorandum,
- make a note,
- make an entry,
- make mincemeat of,
- make out,
- make prints,
- mark,
- mark down,
- matriculate,
- maul,
- mill,
- minute,
- mutilate,
- nick,
- notch,
- note,
- note down,
- ope,
- open,
- open up,
- pare,
- part,
- picot,
- pierce,
- pink,
- place upon record,
- pleat,
- plow,
- poll,
- post,
- post up,
- print,
- prune,
- puncture,
- put down,
- put in writing,
- put on paper,
- put on tape,
- rabbet,
- record,
- reduce to writing,
- register,
- rend,
- rent,
- rifle,
- rift,
- rip,
- rive,
- run,
- rupture,
- rut,
- savage,
- saw,
- scald,
- scallop,
- scarify,
- scissor,
- scorch,
- score,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- scuff,
- sculpture,
- separate,
- serrate,
- set down,
- sever,
- skin,
- slash,
- slice,
- slit,
- slot,
- snip,
- split,
- sprain,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spring open,
- stab,
- stick,
- stipple,
- strain,
- streak,
- striate,
- sunder,
- swing open,
- tabulate,
- take down,
- tap,
- tape,
- tape-record,
- tear,
- tear open,
- throw open,
- tool,
- tooth,
- traumatize,
- trench,
- trough,
- Vandyke,
- videotape,
- whittle,
- wound,
- wrench,
- wrinkle,
- write,
- write down,
- write in,
- write out,
- write up