carve — OET · Shobdo

carve

verb

1 he used to carve horn handles for walking sticks:

sculpt, sculpture;

cut, chisel, hew, whittle, chip, hack, slash;

form, shape, fashion.

2 I carved my initials on the tree:

engrave, etch, notch, cut in, incise, score, print, mark.

▷antonyms erase.

3 he stood carving the roast chicken:

slice, cut up, chop, dice.

□ carve something up

the Empire was carved up into three kingdoms:

divide, partition, parcel out, apportion, subdivide, split up, break up, separate out, segregate, measure out;

share out, dole out;

informal divvy up.

▷antonyms unify; reunify.

carve Oxford Dictionary of English