Difference between Graven and Inscribed

What is the difference between Graven and Inscribed?

Graven as a verb is to dig. while Inscribed as a verb is to write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.

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.

Inscribed

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.

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

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