incise
verb (used with object)
to cut into; cut marks, figures, etc., upon.
incising
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present participleof incise.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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They settled in Philadelphia and, as a teenager, he learned engraving and earned a living incising designs for silverware firms—no doubt honing his talent for detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“Pretty much every surgeon draws their proposed incision with a marker prior to actually incising the skin.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
He extended the idea to works on—or, rather, in—paper, puncturing and incising it from behind.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 28, 2019
We can feel her pushing and pulling, scraping and incising these pictures, as if possessed.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018
With an incising awl, he inscribed the leather-hard clay—a simple chrysanthemum design, far cruder than much of the elaborate incision work for which the potters of Ch’ulp’o were known.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
