Antonyms for axeax·e

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1. • Chop
   • Terminate

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1. ax, axeverb

   an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

   Synonyms:
   ax

2. axe, axverb

   chop or split with an ax

   "axe wood"

   Synonyms:
   ax

3. ax, axeverb

   terminate

   "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"

   Synonyms:
   ax

How to use axe in a sentence?

1. Albert Einstein:

   More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

2. Albert Einstein:

   Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

3. Peter Hiscock:

   It has a smooth surface, a high polish, that doesn’t occur naturally. It doesn’t occur by accident. Someone has to sit and grind the edge in order to make an axe.

4. Peter Hiscock:

   This fragment is small, but it’s very distinctive, it has a smooth surface, a high polish, that doesn’t occur naturally. It doesn’t occur by accident. Someone has to sit and grind the edge in order to make an axe.

5. North Carolina Republicans:

   One man with a political axe to grind invalidated millions of votes and potentially dozens of laws, including the state budget.

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