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Defenition of the word ax

    • Defenition of the word ax

      • A tool for felling trees or chopping wood consisting of a heavy, most commonly metallic head flattened to a blade on one side, and which is attached to a usually wooden handle.
      • an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
      • terminate, as of a project or a program; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
      • chop or split with an ax, as of wood
      • terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
      • chop or split with an ax; "axe wood"
      • terminate
      • chop or split with an ax

    Synonyms for the word ax

      • axe
      • call off
      • chop
      • cleave
      • cleaver
      • cut
      • discharge
      • dismiss
      • erd
      • fire
      • fold
      • give the chop
      • hack
      • hatchet
      • lay off
      • milk
      • put an end to
      • sever
      • stop
      • terminate

    Similar words in the ax

      • ax
      • ax's
      • axed
      • axial
      • axing
      • axiom's
      • axiomatic
      • axiomatically
      • axiomatics
      • axises
      • axle
      • axle's
      • axles
      • axon
      • axon's
      • axons

    Meronymys for the word ax

      • ax head
      • axe head
      • blade
      • haft
      • helve

    Hyponyms for the word ax

      • broadax
      • broadaxe
      • common ax
      • common axe
      • Dayton ax
      • Dayton axe
      • double-bitted ax
      • double-bitted axe
      • fireman's ax
      • fireman's axe
      • hatchet
      • ice ax
      • ice axe
      • piolet
      • poleax
      • poleaxe
      • Western ax
      • Western axe

    Hypernyms for the word ax

      • chop
      • edge tool
      • end
      • hack
      • terminate

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