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# carven

«carven» in Mova's school dictionary: **carved, cut into a shape out of wood or stone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (old use; past form of carve, no comparative)

### meaning for a pupil

Carven means carved, cut into a shape out of wood or stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carven/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, a face, leg or statue that was cut into shape by a carver

### examples

- The carven leg was made of oak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carven/#x1)
- The old statue was carven from white stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carven/#x2)
- Her face looked as if it had been carven in wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carven/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «carven» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/carven/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.