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chiselled out

chiselled out is the simple past and past participle of chisel out.

Meaning of chisel out

Verb

chisel out (third-person singular simple present chisels out, present participle (US) chiseling out or (UK) chiselling out, simple past and past participle (US) chiseled out or (UK) chiselled out)

  1. (literally, transitive) To empty, hollow or remove substance from (something) using a chisel.
  2. (transitive) To make (something) into an exception; to place (a topic) out of consideration.
    • We have to chisel out school funding from the debate.

Questions about chiselled out

What is chiselled out the simple past and past participle of?
Chiselled out is the simple past and past participle of chisel out.

Words near chiselled out in the dictionary

  1. chiseling out
  2. chiseling up
  3. chiselings
  4. chiselled
  5. chiselled in
  6. chiselled out
  7. chiselled up
  8. chiseller
  9. chisellers
  10. chisellike
  11. chiselling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chiselled out (page history and authors); chisel 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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