AXE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for AXE?

Need another word that means the same as “axe”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “axe” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Axe” are: ax, hatchet, cleaver, cancel, withdraw, drop, abandon, end, terminate, put an end to, discontinue, dismiss, give someone notice, throw out, get rid of, lay off, let go, discharge

Axe as a Noun

Definitions of "Axe" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “axe” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A musical instrument used in popular music or jazz, especially a guitar or (originally) a saxophone.
• A tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle.
• A measure intended to reduce costs drastically, especially one involving redundancies.
• An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.

Synonyms of "Axe" as a noun (3 Words)

ax	An edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle.
cleaver	A tool with a heavy, broad blade, used by butchers for chopping meat. A meat cleaver.
hatchet	A small axe with a short handle for use in one hand.

Usage Examples of "Axe" as a noun

• Thirty staff are facing the axe at the Royal Infirmary.
• I started swinging the axe at the lumps of driftwood.
• An axe blade.

Axe as a Verb

Definitions of "Axe" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “axe” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Cut or strike with an axe, especially violently or destructively.
• Chop or split with an ax.
• Terminate.
• End, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly.
• Reduce (costs or services) drastically.

Synonyms of "Axe" as a verb (16 Words)

abandon	Stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims. Fans invaded the pitch and the match was abandoned.
ax	Chop or split with an ax. Axe wood.
cancel	Remove or make invisible. I intend to cancel your debt to me.
discharge	Go off or discharge. The court may discharge a care order on the application of the child.
discontinue	Come to or be at an end. He discontinued his visits.
dismiss	Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position. It would be easy to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain.
drop	Score a goal by a drop kick. The charges against him were dropped last year.
end	Put an end to. She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime.
get rid of	Take vengeance on or get even.
give someone notice	Inflict as a punishment.
lay off	Put in a horizontal position.
let go	Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen.
put an end to	Estimate.
terminate	Terminate the employment of discharge from an office or position. He was terminated by persons unknown.
throw out	To put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly.
withdraw	Withdraw from active participation. It put me off taking the Pill my partner now withdraws.

Usage Examples of "Axe" as a verb

• The mahogany panelling had been axed.
• The Chancellor warned the cabinet to axe public spending.
• The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it.
• Axe wood.
• The company is axing 125 jobs.
• 2,500 staff were axed as part of a rationalization programme.

Associations of "Axe" (30 Words)

anvil	The ossicle between the malleus and the stapes. Anvil clouds.
ax	Chop or split with an ax. Axe wood.
behead	Cut off the head of (someone), especially as a form of execution. Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay.
blade	A cut of beef from the shoulder blade. The Paralympics brought prosthetics such as running blades into the limelight.
chisel	Cut or shape something with a chisel. They chiseled me out of my money.
chop	Form or shape by chopping. He lived on liver or chops.
cleaver	A tool with a heavy, broad blade, used by butchers for chopping meat. A meat cleaver.
drill	Similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored. Tables can be mastered by drill and practice.
equipment	The process of supplying someone or something with necessary equipment. Suppliers of office equipment.
hack	Cut with a hacking tool. Lots of people leave because they can t hack it.
hammer	Create by hammering. Hammer the metal flat.
hatchet	Weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians.
kitchen	A set of fitments and units that are sold together and fixed in place in a kitchen. A fully fitted kitchen at a bargain price.
knife	Stab someone with a knife. He was knifed to death during the argument.
mallet	A hammer with a large, usually wooden head.
microtome	Scientific instrument that cuts thin slices of something for microscopic examination.
mince	Minced meat especially beef. Use a food processor to mince the lamb.
scabbard	A sheath for a gun or other weapon or tool. A ceremonial sword hung at his side in a gilded scabbard.
scissor	Of a person s legs move in a way resembling the action of scissors. He was still hanging on scissoring his legs uselessly.
scissors	Denoting an action in which two things cross each other or open and close like the blades of a pair of scissors. A dummy scissors from David Thomas deceived the opposition.
sharpen	Make crisp or more crisp and precise. The debate sharpened.
shovel	The quantity a shovel can hold. Shovel sand.
sickle	A short-handled farming tool with a semicircular blade, used for cutting corn, lopping, or trimming.
smith	United States suffragist who refused to pay taxes until she could vote (1792-1886. We do not know whether the metals were mined and smelted by the smith or purchased from miners.
spear	Pierce or strike with a spear or other pointed object. Smoked salmon wrapped around asparagus spears.
spike	Injure a player with the spikes on one s shoes. She spiked another oyster.
tannery	Workplace where skins and hides are tanned.
tool	Furnish with tools. Volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold.
wooden	Made of wood. A wooden smile.