ingrave
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of ingrave
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(obsolete, transitive)To bury; to place in a grave.
“But if these black adventures I survive, / Ev'n till this mortal body be ingrav'd, / You shall be lord of that which you have sav'd.”
“The heavy chardge that nature byndes me to I have perform'd; ingrav'd my brother is: I woulde to God (to ease my ceaseless wo) My wretched bones intombed were with his.”
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verb
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(obsolete, transitive)To bury; to place in a grave.
“But if these black adventures I survive, / Ev'n till this mortal body be ingrav'd, / You shall be lord of that which you have sav'd.”
“The heavy chardge that nature byndes me to I have perform'd; ingrav'd my brother is: I woulde to God (to ease my ceaseless wo) My wretched bones intombed were with his.”
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(alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of engrave.
“[…]M. Anthony Bos, who both etched and ingraved in a Stile of his own, did not ſucceed ſo well;[…].”
“Even in Ashmole's plate of the feast of Saint George, in the Hall at Windsor, (ingraved by Hollar,) the Knights may be seen, feeding themselves with their fingers: one only appears to be using a fork or spoon.”
“Behold this fruit, whose gleaming rind ingrav'n / "For the most fair,"' would seem to award it thine, […]”
“1991, Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella (translators), The Lives of the Artists, [from 1550, G. Vasari, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri], page 91, This work, with its border decorations ingraved with festoons of fruit and animals all cast in metal, cost twenty-two thousand florins, while the bronze doors themselves weighed thirty-four thousand pounds.”
name
- A village in Herongate and Ingrave parish, Brentwood borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6292).
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Etymology
From in- + grave. Compare engrave.
Words you can make from ingrave
130 playable · top: REAVING (11 pts)
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20 words4-letter words
45 words- GAVE 8 pts
- GIVE 8 pts
- VAGI 8 pts
- VANG 8 pts
- VEGA 8 pts
- VIGA 8 pts
- AVER 7 pts
- NAVE 7 pts
- NEVI 7 pts
- RAVE 7 pts
- RIVE 7 pts
- VAIN 7 pts
- VAIR 7 pts
- VANE 7 pts
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- VENA 7 pts
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- VINA 7 pts
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- AGER 5 pts
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- AREG 5 pts
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- GANE 5 pts
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- RING 5 pts
- AIRN 4 pts
- ARIE 4 pts
- EARN 4 pts
- NARE 4 pts
- NEAR 4 pts
- RAIN 4 pts
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3-letter words
39 words- VEG 7 pts
- VIG 7 pts
- AVE 6 pts
- NAV 6 pts
- REV 6 pts
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- VAR 6 pts
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- ENG 4 pts
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2-letter words
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