Antonyms for carve
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1. carveverb

   form by carving

   "Carve a flower from the ice"

   Synonyms:
   chip at, cut up

2. carve, chip atverb

   engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface

   "carve one's name into the bark"

   Synonyms:
   chip at, cut up

3. carve, cut upverb

   cut to pieces

   "Father carved the ham"

   Synonyms:
   hack, cut up, compartmentalize, mutilate, chip at, compartmentalise, mangle

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1. carveverb

   Synonyms:
   sculpture, chisel, engrave, fashion, mould

How to use carve in a sentence?

1. Tu Le:

   I'm not sure if they'll be able to carve out a position in the market.

2. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003:

   There isn't much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren't really living without it.

3. Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live":

   It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

4. Joe Manchin:

   Anytime there's a carve out, you eat the whole turkey.

5. Ian Jepson:

   I’m not too sure if they are actually called sponge crabs, but we have always called them that, they seem to carve out a piece of sponge which is loose fitting on their backs. We only usually get one every year or two, but this summer we have had five already. I don't know if the increase is down to global warming, but I am now trying to find out how far they have spread.

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