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hewed

/hyoo or, often, yoo/US // hyu or, often, yu //UK // (hjuː) //

锯切过的,锯切,凿开的,切削过的

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v.有主动词 verb
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    hewed, hewed or hewn, hew·ing.

    • : to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.
    • : to make, shape, smooth, etc., with cutting blows: to hew a passage through the crowd; to hew a statue from marble.
    • : to sever from a whole by means of cutting blows: to hew branches from the tree.
    • : to cut down; fell: to hew wood; trees hewed down by the storm.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    hewed, hewed or hewn, hew·ing.

    • : to strike with cutting blows; cut: He hewed more vigorously each time.
    • : to uphold, follow closely, or conform: to hew to the tenets of one's political party.

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Examples

  • Mostly, the night hewed to its mission: attending to burgeoning design houses.

  • More than a few of them would likely join the opposition for a choice whose views hewed too closely to the man being replaced.

  • He was a mighty woodsman now, and could make a spray of chips fly around him as he hewed his way through the trunk of spruce-tree.

  • I sat on a rude wooden bench of newly-hewed wood, lit my pipe again without interference.

  • The long Frankish swords hewed down the Ismaelians before their short cimeters could strike.

  • Once at least he was compelled to hang downwards by his toes while he hewed steps beneath him in a perpendicular wall of ice.

  • Later on, a sheep's carcass (very thin) is thrown down and hewed up with a bill-hook.