Verb

(archaic) To cut.

* Tennyson

My good blade carved the casques of men.

To cut meat in order to serve it.

You carve the roast and I'll serve the vegetables.

To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.

to carve a name into a tree

* {{quote-book, year=1920, year_published=2008 , edition=HTML, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs

, title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}

(snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.

(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

* South

who could easily have carved themselves their own food.

* {{quote-news, year=2010

, date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards. }}

To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

* Shakespeare

Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.

Verb

(dissolv)

To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding

''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority

To destroy, make disappear

To liquify, melt into a fluid

* Shakespeare

as if the world were all dissolved to tears

To be melted, changed into a fluid

(chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.

(chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.

To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.

* Shakespeare

Nothing can dissolve us.

To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

* Fairfax

Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.

* The Declaration of Independence

For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.

(legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.

to dissolve an injunction

(cinematography) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.

To resolve itself as by dissolution

(obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.

* Tennyson

dissolved the mystery

* Bible, Daniel v. 16

Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.

To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.

* Dryden

Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.