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etched

verb

Past of etch

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The word "etched" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe something that has been carved or cut into a hard material with a tool. For example, "The initials of the bride and groom were etched into the side of the wedding cake."

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She couldn't quite shatter the glass ceiling in 2008, but she vowed that the "18 million cracks" she had etched in it would help ensure it would yield in the end.

From the stage the actors could see the misery etched on their faces, condemned to sit in a sweltering theatre and watch a play about heterosexual and homosexual love in New York when all their mates were down the pub screaming advice at Paul Gascoigne.

It was etched into every pore of the men who were pressed in front of him.

Her eyes hollow, her features etched by decades of substance abuse, she explained: 'The trouble with people is they don't necessarily look like lunatics.

And then the weekend finishes with the game that at one point looked like it might be a Supporters' Shield decider, and instead is shaping up to be a battle to avoid the wild card game, as LA go to a Seattle team who'll now forever be etched in the MLS "Big Book of Truisms" under the heading, "Games in hand are not points" after losing their last four and being winless in six.

Chris Ramsey sank to his haunches, head in hands and agony etched across his face.

He haunted the seedy stretches of east London with copper plates in his pocket and etched away at what he called his "Thames Set".

These Okies are for ever etched into America's psyche as the Joad family in "The Grapes of Wrath".

A 2K film etched on a Blu-ray disc uses all 50 gigabytes of its two recording layers.

Lexington writes of a clearly etched polity with a written constitution, Bagehot an unwritten one.

It is unsettling to see hands etched with a code of bloodshed cutting pastries and daintily dipping them in sugar.

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