etched

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etched

Rhymes with -ɛtʃt

adjective

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 inten
of a muscle Toned and with a well-defined musculature.

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of etch

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: graven, engraved, carven, carved, incised, inscribed, embossed, filmed, marked, recorded, written, scratched, set, pronounced, cast, ingrained

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"etched." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/etched. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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etched. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/etched

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"etched." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/etched.

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@misc{etched_2026,
  title = {etched},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/etched},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}