Grabados = engraved

1 Ne 3:12 grabados sobre las planchas de bronce - engraved on the brass plates


grabados sounds like grabbing, but engraving is not grabbing but the opposite, a removing , well perhaps it is like that in that the metal is grabbed and pulled out in the places that the words are engraved.  I hope this will help me remember this word.  I am trying to learn Spanish, a little bit at a time.