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ax

/aks/US // æks //

斧头,轴线,斧子,轴心

Related Words

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ax·es [ak-siz]. /ˈæk sɪz/.

    • : an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc.
    • : Jazz Slang. any musical instrument.
    • : the ax, Informal. dismissal from employment: to get the ax.expulsion from school.rejection by a lover, friend, etc.: His girlfriend gave him the ax.any usually summary removal or curtailment.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    axed, ax·ing.

    • : to shape or trim with an ax.
    • : to chop, split, destroy, break open, etc., with an ax: The firemen had to ax the door to reach the fire.
    • : Informal. to dismiss, restrict, or destroy brutally, as if with an ax: The main office axed those in the field who didn't meet their quota. Congress axed the budget.

Phrases

  • ax to grind
  • get the ax

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdismiss
Forms: axed, axes, axing
Synonyms
can可以,可,能,能够cleaver菜刀,劈刀,刮刀,劈柴刀discharge排放,排出,遣散,排放问题fire火,火灾,开火,开枪hatchet斧头,斧子,大斧,帽子poll民意调查,投票,投票表决,民意测验sack袋子,袋子里的东西,袋子里的钱,袋子里的食物tomahawk战斧,战斧式,战斧式的

Examples

  • As for those who aren’t on the final USA Basketball team, well, there are plenty of folks with an ax to grind about that.

  • The show lasted three seasons, most recently airing in January 2021, before getting the ax.

  • The truck was also carrying paintball guns, shields, three bats and an ax handle, prosecutors said.

  • The crusty conservative battle-ax Phyllis Schlafly is giving speeches saying that Obama worships government like a god.

  • One morning a few years ago, the editor left his apartment to find an ax stuck into a log on his doorstep.

  • “Kasich wields his ax much less selectively than do most of his party colleagues,” the New York Times Magazine reported in 1998.

  • Then, one warm summer day, Andrew and Abby were found hacked to death more than a dozen times with an ax.

  • The ensuing night gave me the grand migraine of my life, with throbs like the blows of an ax and continuous pinwheels.

  • Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.

  • From somewhere in the thicket below a muffled thump, thump, thump came up to them, as though some one was wielding an ax.

  • The blows of the ax, off in the chaparral, were louder in their ears now, and they could hear a mumble of voices.

  • Gregory picked up an ax as he stepped back, and then stood confronting the boys threateningly.

  • The ax was to sever the head from the lifeless body, and all the headless trunks were to be interred together.

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