incise
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During high flows after storms, these boulders may be fully mobile, and as they move, they help incise the river.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023
“These linear features mean the river is going to form in the same place every year, allowing the water to incise deeper,” Boghosian says.
From Scientific American • Apr. 20, 2022
The local artist uses a compass to incise tightly arrayed complementary lines into large sheets of black-painted plaster topped with glistening layers of graphite and varnish; the resulting pieces appear metallic and machine-tooled.
From Washington Post • Nov. 23, 2021
Once it hit the ground, that water began running off into countless streams and gathering in numerous canyons that incise the foothills of the nation’s highest terrain.
From Time • Sep. 18, 2013
Only in cases of laryngoptosis will it be necessary to incise the trachea higher than this.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
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