etch

About 1.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
2. verb To engrave a surface.
3. verb To make a lasting impression.

   The memory of 9/11 is etched into my mind.

4. verb To sketch; to delineate.
5. noun Obsolete form of eddish.

Similar words

engraving engrave embossed imprint recording delineate recorded ingrain logo shot

Often followed by

rate the pits rates process pit a and depth

Word family

etched etcher etchers etches etching