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. Anne Bradstreet:

   Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

2. Raghuram Selvaraju:

   Ian's main concern is to get lower taxes for Pfizer through an inversion. He would rather be able to say he pulled this tax inversion off, and now I'm going to let Brent crack the whip and wield the axe.

3. 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.

4. William Shakespeare:

   And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.

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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