ax 的 2 个定义
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.
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.
ax 近义词
dismiss
由ax构成的短语
- ax to grind
- get the ax
更多ax例句
- 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.