Difference between Graven and Carved

What is the difference between Graven and Carved?

Graven as a verb is to dig. while Carved as a verb is to cut.

Graven

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To dig.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: 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.

Carved

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cut.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of an object, made by carving.

Example sentence: Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

We hope you now know whether to use Graven or Carved in your sentence.

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