carve : Idioms & Phrases
carve out
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verb establish or create through painstaking effort
- She carved out a reputation among her male colleagues
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verb remove from a larger whole
- the new start-up company carved out a large chunk of the market within a year
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carve up
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verb separate into parts or portions
divide; separate; split up; split; dissever.
- divide the cake into three equal parts
- The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I
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carved in stone
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adjective satellite no longer changeable
set in stone.
- the agreement is not yet set in stone
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carving fork
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noun a large fork used in carving cooked meat
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carving knife
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noun a large knife used to carve cooked meat
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To carve out
- to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage."
