incising

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  • In A.D. 64, the Apostle Peter was crucified and buried in its shadow, incising the place in history.
  • I wrote it all down, but the ink in my pen didn't flow well, I had to scratch it into the page, like incising it. —  Israel Palestine Blogs
  • Incidence of landslides will greatly increase the sediment budget, and some landslides will create slidedams and cause a river or creek to change course, incising fresh sediment loads from alluvial plains. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • This image shows the wall of a crater in the Northern Lowlands that has several gullies incising it. —  HiRISE: High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
  • Intaglio, the process of incising the design, is the opposite of relief printing.
 

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