carve : Idioms & Phrases

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carve out

  • verb establish or create through painstaking effort
    • She carved out a reputation among her male colleagues
  • 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

  • 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

  • adjective satellite no longer changeable
    set in stone.
    • the agreement is not yet set in stone
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carving fork

  • noun a large fork used in carving cooked meat
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carving knife

  • 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."
Webster 1913