gravening

Verb (1)

graven (third-person singular simple present gravens, present participle gravening, simple past and past participle gravened)

1. (archaic, transitive) To make graven or engraved
   • I saw I was not only gravened upon the palms of his hands, or set as a seal upon his arm, but I was pourtrayed upon his heart.1786, Thomas Doolittle, A treatise concerning the Lord's Supper

Verb (2)

graven (third-person singular simple present gravens, present participle gravening, simple past and past participle gravened)

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become grave (serious or sombre)
   • Whatever it was that had cast a dark shadow and gravened the faces of those normally ebullient people was much too complicated for me to understand.2012, Samuel W Herbert, Avenue

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