Axe
Axe verb - Chop or split with an ax.
Usage example: axe wood
Hack
Hack verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.
How words are described
| special | special axe | special hack |
| best | best axe | best hack |
| similar | similar axe | similar hack |
| ordinary | ordinary axe | ordinary hack |
| Other adjectives: standard, original, single, simple, massive, large, big, great, traditional, bloody, favorite. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In one episode of The Young Ones, the students' landlord goes crazier, becomes an "axe-wielding homicidal maniac", and starts to hack his way through the door.
Source: Axe Before Entering -
The prime suspect for his murder is his daughter, who has multiple personalities that resulted from her seeing her father hack up her mother with an axe, when she was a child.
Source: Series / Murdoch Mysteries - Before rusting solid, his axe was enchanted by the Witch of the East to slip and slowly hack him to pieces.
Source: And I Must Scream / Literature
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