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Synonyms for axe
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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  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

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PPDB, the paraphrase database3.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "axe":

    hache, ax, hatchet, axis, fez, machete, centreline

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Axe":

    Samuel Scott Young, Young Axe

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#5277axis
#12163ax
#14486axe
#34526hatchet
#44384fez
#53723machete
#100057hache
#123134centreline

How to use axe in a sentence?

  1. Abraham Lincoln:

    If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.

  2. Asbel Kiprop:

    My family and I are devastated. I am traumatized, the line of questioning I was subjected to earlier strongly suggested somebody had an axe to grind.

  3. 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.

  4. Mahabharata:

    A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart.

  5. 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.


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