動詞 incise:

1. make an incision into by carving or cutting

in.cise

v.tr.（及物動詞）
in.cised,in.cis.ing,in.cis.es
To cut into, as with a sharp instrument:
切入：切入，如用銳利的器具：
例句：
incised the tablet with chisels; a plateau that had been deeply incised by streams.
用鑿子鑿石桌；被河流劃出深深溝壑的高原

To engrave (designs or writing, for example) into a surface; carve.
雕，刻：刻（如圖案，文字）于一表面；雕刻
To engrave designs, writing, or other marks into.
刻：刻入圖案、文字或其它符號

來源：
French inciser
法語 inciser
from Old French enciser
源自 古法語 enciser
from Vulgar Latin *incos3re
源自 俗拉丁語 *incos3re
frequentative of Latin incodere incos-
拉丁語 incodere的重復(fù) incos-
in- [in] * see in- 2
in- [進入] *參見 in-2
caedere [to cut] * see ka…-id-
caedere [切，切開] *參見 ka…-id-