Hacking Synonyms, Hacking Antonyms

Synonyms for hacking

verb cripple, put out of action

Antonyms for hacking

Word Origin & History

"to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows," c.1200, from verb found in stem of Old English tohaccian "hack to pieces," from West Germanic *hakkon (cf. Old Frisian hackia "to chop or hack," Dutch hakken, Old High German hacchon, German hacken), from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth." Perhaps influenced by Old Norse höggva "to hack, hew" (cf. hacksaw). Slang sense of "cope with" (such as in can't hack it) is first recorded in American English 1955, with a sense of "get through by some effort," as a jungle (cf. phrase hack after "keep working away at" attested from late 14c.). Related: Hacked; hacking.

Example Sentences for hacking

It must be the rotgut from l'Assommoir that was hacking away inside him.

A sparrow in the garden was hacking the air with its monotonous chirp.

"That's it—keep at it," a dry, hacking voice kept going in Peer's head.

"I'd rather not if I could avoid It," replied a thin fellow, with a hacking cough.

No amount of hacking work can take away the eloquence of this phrasing.

Friends noted with concern his thinness and a hacking cough.

In a moment more the agonising, hacking, rending cough came on.

Far into the twilight the sound of hacking was heard from the squatting-places.

Jim was kneeling on the ground, hacking with his jack-knife at the earth.

Sir Robert's own sword rose and fell, cutting and hacking at the enemy.