Read the sentence from the passage and answer the question that follows.
On turning round I saw that all the graves were open, that all the dead bodies had emerged from them, and that all had effaced the lies inscribed—engraved or written on the gravestones by their relations, substituting the truth instead.
Which word, if substituted for inscribed, would best retain the meaning of the passage?
Scratched
Pierced
Carved
Erased