inscribe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.
To dedicate to someone.
To enter on a document or list; to enroll.
To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.

/ɪnˈskɹaɪb/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-inscribe.wav

inscribe inscribes inscribing inscribed

Borrowed from Latin īnscrībō, from in- (“upon”) and scrībō (“to write”).

enwrite inwrite

escribe

inscription circumscribe

exinscribed inscribable inscriber reinscribe superinscribe uninscribed

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