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axed

/aks/US // æks //

被砍掉,被砍掉的,斧头,被砍的

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n.名词 noun
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    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
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    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

Examples

  • Marlow: I think that season finale episodes are tough, and a few of those threads definitely should have been axed.

  • In fact, he has axed the sub-group of the project that was slated to work on the cognitive level.

  • It was bad enough that veterans, theatre critic Michael Feingold and food critic Robert Sietsema were both axed.

  • Since May 2010, the public sector has axed 1.125 million jobs.

  • Fox also axed Dick Morris, who repeatedly predicted that Mitt Romney would beat Obama in an electoral landslide.

  • He knows I've got a still over hyeh as well as you do—an' he's never axed a question nor peeped an eye.

  • I made-b'lieve as you were to be tried next week, and I axed him to come to the trial.

  • I'm goin' to-neet, because I dunnot want to be axed questions.

  • "Oh, I fort yu axed dat ar boy who made him," she answered with a broad smile.

  • I axed master, if soe bee he knowed sitch a man as one Captain Tomlinson?