Incise

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=cise

CIDE DICTIONARY

Incise, v. t. [L. incisus, p. p. of incidere to incise: cf. F. inciser. See Incide.].

•  To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.  [1913 Webster]

  "I on thy grave this epitaph incise."  [1913 Webster]
•  To cut, gash, or wound with a sharp instrument; to cut off.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Incise, v.tr.
1 make a cut in.
2 engrave.

Etymology

F inciser f. L incidere incis- (as IN-(2), caedere cut)

THESAURUS

Incise

Vandyke, 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, videotape, whittle, wound, wrench, wrinkle, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

ROGET THESAURUS

Incise

Remedy

VB apply a remedy, doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster, drain, prevent, relieve, palliate, restore, drench with physic, bleed, cup, let blood, manicure, operate, excise, cut out, incise.

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

Furrow

VB furrow, flute, plow, incise, engrave, etch, bite in.