English dictionary
ax
/&/ks/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
Synonyms axeSource: WordNet 3.0
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A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The <i>broadax</i>, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
Source: webster1913
verb
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chop or split with an ax
ExamplesAxe wood.
Source: WordNet 3.0
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terminate
ExamplesThe NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it.
Source: WordNet 3.0
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To ask; to inquire or inquire of.
Source: webster1913