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Exact Match:

ax

an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle

terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"

Synonyms:

• amputate,
• battle-ax,
• beheading,
• bisect,
• blade,
• block,
• boot out,
• bounce,
• burning,
• butcher,
• can,
• capital punishment,
• carve,
• cashier,
• cashiering,
• chop,
• cleave,
• cold steel,
• conge,
• cross,
• crucifixion,
• cut,
• cut away,
• cut in two,
• cut off,
• cutlery,
• cutter,
• dagger,
• death chair,
• death chamber,
• decapitation,
• decollation,
• defenestration,
• deposal,
• dichotomize,
• discharge,
• disemployment,
• dismissal,
• displacing,
• dissever,
• drop,
• drumming out,
• edge tools,
• electric chair,
• electrocution,
• excise,
• execution,
• fire,
• firing,
• fissure,
• forced separation,
• furloughing,
• fusillade,
• gallows,
• gallows-tree,
• garrote,
• gas chamber,
• gash,
• gassing,
• gibbet,
• guillotine,
• hack,
• halberd,
• halter,
• halve,
• hanging,
• hatchet,
• hemlock,
• hemp,
• hempen collar,
• hew,
• hot seat,
• incise,
• jigsaw,
• judicial murder,
• kick out,
• knife,
• lance,
• lapidation,
• layoff,
• lethal chamber,
• maiden,
• naked steel,
• necktie party,
• noose,
• pare,
• pigsticker,
• pink slip,
• point,
• poisoning,
• poleax,
• prune,
• puncturer,
• removal,
• rend,
• retirement,
• rive,
• rope,
• sack,
• saw,
• scaffold,
• scissor,
• sever,
• sharpener,
• shooting,
• slash,
• slice,
• slit,
• snip,
• split,
• stake,
• steel,
• stoning,
• strangling,
• strangulation,
• sunder,
• surplusing,
• suspension,
• sword,
• tear,
• terminate,
• the ax,
• the block,
• the boot,
• the bounce,
• the chair,
• the gallows,
• the gas chamber,
• the gate,
• the guillotine,
• the hot seat,
• the rope,
• the sack,
• ticket,
• toad sticker,
• tomahawk,
• tree,
• walking papers,
• whittle