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