MEANING
To make a cut into a surface or tissue with a sharp edge, including cutting a design or inscription.
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Words that belong together
- incise a pattern
- incise the surface
On the page
A spiral had been incised into the bone before it hardened.
She found the same pattern incised along the inside of every door.
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Word forms
- Base
- incise
- Past tense
- incised
- Past participle
- incised
- Present participle
- incising
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- incise
- Present continuous
- am/is/are incising
- Present perfect
- have/has incised
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been incising
- Past
- incised
- Past continuous
- was/were incising
- Past perfect
- had incised
- Past perfect continuous
- had been incising
- Future
- will incise
- Future continuous
- will be incising
- Future perfect
- will have incised
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been incising
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: incise; incises; incised; incised; incising Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: incises.
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