Definitions for graven

graven grav·en

Spelling: [grey-vuh n]
IPA: /ˈgreɪ vən/

Graven is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in graven (aegnrv).

Definitions for graven

verb

  1. a past participle of grave3 .

adjective

  1. deeply impressed; firmly fixed.
  2. carved; sculptured:

verb (used with object)

  1. to carve, sculpt, or engrave.
  2. to impress deeply:
  3. to clean and apply a protective composition of tar to (the bottom of a ship).

Origin of graven

1200-50; Middle English. See grave3, -en3

Examples for graven

The recollection of that afternoon will always be graven on my mind.

Darn him, like a graven image there, the only mute, immovable thing in that turmoil!

But along the edge of the oven were graven the signs of the eight elemental forces.

His collar of brass, with its graven name, bore evidence to his words.

But his real monument will never be one graven by art or man's device.

Has existence only to unroll a tableau, every detail of which is graven on my heart?

She faced Hendricks, who had stood there like a graven image, watching her.

Louisa might as well have been a graven image for all the response she gave.

Frankle's face was a graven mask as he searched their faces dispassionately.

"I ain't exactly a graven image, now that you mention it," he admitted.

Word Value for graven
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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