Definition of axed in English

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Verb axes, axing, axed
axe - chop or split with an ax; "axe wood"
		ax
		chop, hack hit sharply
axe - terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
		ax
		end, terminate bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

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axe (Noun)
A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
axe (Noun)
An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
axe (Noun)
A dismissal or rejection.
axe (Noun)
A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
axe (Noun)
A directional position or interest, by a dealer in a financial market – if one wishes to unload stock, one is “axed to sell” or “has an axe”. Shedding the correlation ‘axe’, Risk magazine Derived from “have an axe to grind ”, which is also used.
axe (Noun)
The axle of a wheel.
axe (Verb)
To fell or chop with an axe.
axe (Verb)
To terminate or reduce tremendously in a rough or ruthless manner.
axe (Verb)
To lay off : to terminate a person's employment.
axe (Verb)
To furnish with an axle.

axe (n.)
A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.
axe
Alt. of Axeman

axe
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.

axe
Ax, aks, n. a well-known tool or instrument for hewing or chopping, usually of iron with a steel edge:—pl. Ax′es. [A.S. æx; L. ascia; Gr. axinē.]

axe
A large flat edge-tool, for trimming and reducing timber. Also an Anglo-Saxon word for ask, which seamen still adhere to, and it is difficult to say why a word should be thought improper which has descended from our earliest poets; it may have become obsolete, but without absolutely being vulgar or incorrect.

Axe (or ax) is an ancient tool used to shape, split and cut wood.

In the past, axes were used as weapons by soldiers. Today, axes are usually related to woodcutters and firemen.