Synonyms for machete
məˈʃɛt i, -ˈtʃɛt ima·chete

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1. machetenoun

   Synonyms:
   bolo

2. macheteverb

   To cut or chop with a machete.

   After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.

   Synonyms:
   bolo

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.6 / 7 votes

1. machete, matchet, panganoun

   a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation

   Synonyms:
   panga, matchet

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1. • Knife

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1. karambit

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1. List of paraphrases for "machete":

   axe

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1. Robert Doggart:

   If it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to shreds.

2. Abdullah Faaruuq:

   They say Aafia Saddiqui took up a machine gun while they held Aafia Saddiqui captive in the other room and was ready to attack her captors, what a brave woman she is. And if my mother was in the same place, she would have taken her West Indian machete and cut her way through those kafirs( infidels).

3. Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   ... Kneeling before the death cult flag with a knife in his hand and a machete before him one of those arrested said this: 'I swear to almighty Allah, we will carry out the first implementation for the soldiers of the caliphate in Australia', he went on to say ... 'I swear to almighty Allah, blond people, there is no room for blame between you and us. We only are ... stabbing the kidneys and striking the necks’.

4. Transportation Security Officer Carol Richel:

   Officer Slyve is my hero, she probably saved my life because he was within inches of whacking me. ... She saved a lot of people's lives. This man was swinging very hard with the machete.

5. Patrice Barutwanajo:

   Whoever has a machete uses it for cultivating, not for other purposes, it is impossible to say that people have machetes for killing.