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sculpture
noun
- the art of carving wood, chiseling stone, casting or welding metal, molding clay or wax, etc. into three-dimensional representations, as statues, figures, forms, etc.
- any work of sculpture, or such works collectively
transitive verb sculptured, sculpturing
- to cut, carve, chisel, cast, weld, mold, etc. into statues, figures, etc.
- to represent or portray by means of sculpture
- to make or form as or like sculpture
- to decorate with sculpture
- to change in form by erosion: rock sculptured by a river
intransitive verb
to work as a sculptor
Related Forms:
- sculptural adjective
- sculpturally adverb
See sculpture in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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