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Meaning axe meaning

What does axe mean?
Definitions in simple English

axe Noun

— An axe is a tool made from a short blade on a long handle. Axes are often used to cut wood.

axe Verb

— If you axe something, you chop it with an axe. — If you axe something, you end or reduce it in a sudden or mean way. The government announced its plans to axe public spending. The broadcaster axed the series because far less people than expected watched it. — If you axe someone, you fire a person from their job. He got axed in the last round of firings.

axe

— noun (= ax) an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle — verb (= ax) chop or split with an ax axe wood — verb (= ax) terminate The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it

Synonyms axe synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as axe?

axe English » English

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Topics axe topics

What do people use axe to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Snow, ice

Conjugation axe conjugation

How do you conjugate axe?

axe · verb

Examples axe examples

How do I use axe in a sentence?

Simple sentences

An axe in the house keeps the carpenter away.
For a rough branch, a keen axe is needed.
Take an axe, and cut off the head of the calf with one blow. With a second, split its head in two, and in its brain you will see a bright red ball. Bring that to me.
With one blow of the axe, he killed the calf, and with the second split its brain.
Tom took the axe and went to chop down some trees in the forest; because he wanted to build a new barrier.
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
Tom sharpened his axe.
It's a sharp axe, but the branch is not yielding.
Many revolutionaries have been beheaded at the axe of a guillotine.
The handle of an axe is Death to its own tribe.
We cut trees with an axe.
Tom chopped some firewood with his axe.

Movie subtitles

I wanted to go to the Volga, play about with my battle-axe.
Have you got any special axe to grind?
Ive held that axe up for ages.
She aimed to go with an axe in the other hand, got mixed up, forgot which was which.
I need him like the axe needs the turkey!
I parted the main beak halyards with a wrecking axe.
This, my friend, is a rapier, not an axe.
Where the offence is, let the great axe fall. Hm?
That was in the old days of the axe, of course.
The loss of horses bothered him, but my mother running out really broke the axe.
Use your axe if you have to.
Therefore, elect from axe or blade.
I choose the axe.
And pass the time of day with notorious murderers. who killed with the rope, the knife, and the axe.
Shovel, axe, dynamite, pineapples?
You got the shovel, the axe and the pick?
Our learned medico is going to perform one of his operations with an axe.
The old battle-axe.
I've held that axe up for ages.
From now on, I'm gonna take care of you. You've got the axe, of course?
Well, I can do almost everything around a ranch, but I never could. put an edge on an axe.
It's a cinch that axe hasn't had an edge on it in two months.
Out of the forest came a man with an axe in his hand.
I remember when your axe came.
Someday, they're just gonna find your hair ribbon and an axe someplace.
Therefore, elect from axe or blade. I choose the axe.
The axe began to fall one day not so long Ago when I'd just gotten in from San Bernardino.
I was at the edge of the break when I saw him fall, and I just had time to -- in my ice axe, but not enough.
Some jerk on the rope pulled me over the edge. I hung there with the axe.
Lose anything else, but not the axe.
And the axe that was used on Pale Pie wasn't their axe.

News and current affairs

As for Al Jazeera's journalistic performance, it is past time that the station be judged by respected professional journalists, not by US or other officials with a policy axe to grind.
In 1999, Huji members attempted to assassinate the moderate poet Shamshur Rahman with an axe.
Over the medium term, it must take an axe to the thicket of unwieldy regulations that make businesses so dependent on an agile and cooperative bureaucracy.
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