Antonyms for carving
ˈkɑr vɪŋcarv·ing

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1. • Artistic Creation
   • Creating By Removal
   • Fine Arts
   • Sculpture

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1. carvingnoun

   a sculpture created by removing material (as wood or ivory or stone) in order to create a desired shape

   Synonyms:
   cutting, sculpture

2. carving, cuttingnoun

   removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape

   Synonyms:
   clipping, thinning, cutting off, film editing, slip, press clipping, cut, cutting, sculpture, newspaper clipping, press cutting

3. sculpture, carvingnoun

   creating figures or designs in three dimensions

   Synonyms:
   sculpture, cutting

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1. carvingnoun

   Synonyms:
   sculpture (in wood or ivory), anaglyptics, anaglyphy

How to use carving in a sentence?

1. Brady Smith:

   I can say that the issue of people carving their names and other things in rocks in the Sedona and surrounding area is always a challenge we face, and (we) try to inform people about its destructive nature. we have found that when one person carves something, it encourages others to carve.

2. Brady Smith:

   On Monday, Feb.15, we became aware -- via media and public reports -- of an Instagram posting by Vanessa Hudgens showing a scratching or carving of a heart with two names in it on a rock that allegedly is on the Red Rock Ranger District of the Coconino National Forest.

3. Raymond Chandler:

   There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen.

4. Anais Nin:

   We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.

5. Jennifer Pizer:

   [W]e are witness yet again to the unrelenting anti-LGBTQ crusade being waged by self-described Christian fundamentalist legal groups aiming to chip away at the hard-won gains of LGBTQ people by carving out swaths of territory where discrimination can flourish, the constitutional protections for religious freedom and free speech were never intended as weapons of discrimination for those doing business with the general public.

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