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ax

or axe

[ aks ]

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noun

plural axes

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.
1. dismissal from employment:
  to get the ax.
2. expulsion from school.
3. rejection by a lover, friend, etc.:
  His girlfriend gave him the ax.
4. any usually summary removal or curtailment.

verb (used with object)

axed, axing.

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-

variant of axi-, especially before a vowel.

ax.

abbreviation for

axiom.

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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

补虫顎僱颈办别顎� adjective

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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of ax¹

before 1000; Middle English; ax ( e ), ex ( e ), Old English 忙x, 忙ces; akin to Gothic aquizi, Old Norse 酶x, 谦x, Old High German acc ( h ) us, a ( c ) kus ( German Axt ), Middle High German plural exa < Germanic *akwiz-, akuz-, aksi- 鈮� *谩k蓹s, 谩ks-; Latin ascia (< *补肠蝉颈腻 ), Greek 补虫墨虂苍脓; < Indo-European *ag-s-

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

have an ax to grind, to have a personal or selfish motive:
His interest may be sincere, but I suspect he has an ax to grind.

More idioms and phrases containing ax

In addition to the idiom beginning with ax , also see get the ax .

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Example Sentences

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Representing as he does the non-expansion state of Georgia, he knows that red state governors like his own would be inclined to simply ax the expansion if given a fiscal pretext to hide behind.

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So, I have a little bit of an ax to grind about it.

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Holding an ax, she was portrayed as a murderous, wealth-seeking seductress who had beheaded her husbands, evident by their heads disappearing from the wedding portraits scattered around the attic.

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It鈥檚 like 10 guys, and each is carrying an ax, and they don鈥檛 really have anything else.

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One account said the Russians paid the Kashia Pomo people already living there 鈥渢hree blankets, two axes, three hoes, and a miscellaneous assortment of beads鈥� for the use of the land.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

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