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etched

etched adjective: cut or dug into the surface as by etching. Also the simple past and past participle of etch.

Adjective

etched

  1. Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
    • [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento...2014 November 17, Roger Cohen, “The horror! The horror! The trauma of ISIS [print version: International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 9]”, in The New York Times
  2. (body part or person) Toned and with a well-defined musculature.

Also used as

etched is also the simple past and past participle of etch.

Words formed from etched

Words that rhyme with etched

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Questions about etched

What does etched mean?
Etched means cut or dug into the surface as by etching.
What part of speech is etched?
Etched is an adjective.

Words near etched in the dictionary

  1. etchable
  2. etchant
  3. etchants
  4. Etchareottine
  5. Etchareottines
  6. etched
  7. Etchells
  8. Etchemin
  9. etcher
  10. etchers
  11. etches

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