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carved out

carved out is the simple past and past participle of carve out.

Meaning of carve out

Verb

carve out (third-person singular simple present carves out, present participle carving out, simple past and past participle carved out)

  1. (literally, transitive) To hollow by carving.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To create (a reputation, chance, role, rank, career, victory) by hard work, or as if by cutting.
    • I managed to carve out a niche for myself in the world of investigative journalism.
    Synonyms:
    forge

Questions about carved out

What is carved out the simple past and past participle of?
Carved out is the simple past and past participle of carve out.

Words near carved out in the dictionary

  1. carve-ups
  2. carveability
  3. carveable
  4. carved
  5. carved in stone
  6. carved out
  7. carved up
  8. carvedilol
  9. carvedst
  10. carvel
  11. Carvel Rock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carved out (page history and authors); carve out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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