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axing

verb as in cut with large blade

verb as in dismiss

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So I hope that every girl who got told off for being angry, and who, like me, in their secret heart of hearts, just kind of pretends that she has a huge broadsword or ax and hits people, it’s for them.

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Your other co-planner, with an ax to grind, wants to leave off Avery or Brad or both of them.

The axing has inspired countless articles on appropriate dismissal methods.

Smith has said she got the impression that her axing came from the suits upstairs, not from show creator Shonda Rhimes.

I'd a deal sooner be flogged mysel'; but yo're not a common wench, axing yo'r pardon, nor yet have yo' common ways about yo'.

If the Squire had had such a nose as that, I don't think it's pardin he'd ha' been axing.

If the Squire had had such a nose as that, I don't think it's pardin he'd been ha' axing.

You're axing me to come out at a very busy moment, Muster Fenwick.

There's a jintleman in the drawing-room as is axing afther masther.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to axing, such as: chop, cut, cut down, fell, and hew.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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