be etched on/in someone's memory

etch | American Dictionary

etch
verb[ T ]
us/etʃ/
to cut a pattern, picture, etc., in a surface:
Rory ordered a baseball bat with his own name etched in the wood.
fig.The building had become etched in clear detail in her mind.

Examples of etch

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The territorial gains of the war were etched in personal memories and blood.
Although most would agree that traumatic events are well etched in memory, there is considerable disagreement concerning their retrievability.
The egg is white and shining, and its surface is faintly etched.
There is a strong emphasis on the etching process.
The assembly was then immersed in the etching bath and held ver tically during the operation.
Effect of gas composition on spore mortality and etching during low-pressure plasma sterilization.
Statistics and morphology of typical damages of the foil and its resistance to fluorine etching were investigated.
Because the labels were not of paper but were etched on, the print naming the selection was hardly legible.
Alternatively, surface stereom could have been filled with syntaxial cements and then etched out during weathering.
In plasma etching the bias voltage is usually used, which is applied to the wafer to produce a high-energy ion flux.
The strains of this responsibility were etched on their faces.
By contrast, irrigation, terracing and wetland agriculture left visible features etched into hillsides, valleys and marshes.
Microbial etching textures of olivine : use as a biosignature ?
During the etching process the specimens were held at room temperature for 9 days and the osmic solution was changed daily.
Fittingly, the playing is nothing if not spirited, etching rather than water-colour.
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