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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make or shape with or as if with an ax.
- intransitive verb To cut down with an ax; fell.
- intransitive verb To strike or cut; cleave.
- intransitive verb To cut something by repeated blows, as of an ax.
- intransitive verb To adhere or conform strictly; hold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cut; especially, to cut with an ax, a hatchet, or a sword with a swinging blow; cut with a heavy blow or with repeated blows: as, to
hew down a tree. - To form or shape by blows with a sharp instrument; cut roughly into form; shape out by cutting: often with out: as, to
hew timber; to hew out a sepulcher from a rock. - To cut; inflict cutting blows.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
hue . - noun Destruction by cutting down.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
hue .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Destruction by cutting down.
- transitive verb To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with
down , oroff . - transitive verb To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with
out . - transitive verb To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
- noun obsolete Hue; color.
- noun obsolete Shape; form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
chop away at; towhittle down; tomow down. - verb transitive To shape; to form.
- verb transitive, US To act according to, to
conform to; usually construed withto . - noun obsolete
hue ;colour - noun obsolete
shape ;form
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb strike with an axe; cut down, strike
- verb make or shape as with an axe
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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HY has the same relation to y as HW to w, and represents a sound like that heard in English hew, huge; h in Quenya eht, iht had the same sound.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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October 21, 2009 at 6:01 am an i will hug yew an squeeze yew and call hew jorge!
I lub yu! I missed yu! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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"hew" -- "hew," which was answered from a little distance, and looking round, we discovered another roof with an ape seated under it.
In the Wilds of Africa William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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(He defends 'hew') ... at any rate whatever is markedly featured in stone or what is like stone is most naturally said to be hewn, and to _shape_, itself, means in old English to hew and the Hebrew _bara_ to create, even, properly means to hew.
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866
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All I know is of the flesh, the hew and the thrust of pleasure.
Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011
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Some suggest we hew perfectly to the code of journalistic ethics, which forbid both promises.
What do Wine Critics and Bloggers "Owe" Wineries That Send Them Samples? 2009
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What's especially notable about this campaign is that it didn't simply hew to whatever centrist, business-leaning line-of-the-week that the White House was promoting in promoting a "reform" agenda -- as did the progressive coalitions supporting health care and financial reform -- but supported an independent agenda that went beyond what the White House seemed willing to do initially.
Art Levine: New Era in Washington? AFL-CIO, Chamber Join Hands, Liberals Win One on Social Security Art Levine 2011
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Afterwards, the Republicans will broadcast their response and politicians and pundits alike will flood the airwaves with their trenchant analyses which will -- surprise, surprise -- hew strictly to party lines and/or political agendas.
Rob Densen: Congress: Save Our Lungs and Spare Us Yours Rob Densen 2011
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What's especially notable about this campaign is that it didn't simply hew to whatever centrist, business-leaning line-of-the-week that the White House was promoting in promoting a "reform" agenda -- as did the progressive coalitions supporting health care and financial reform -- but supported an independent agenda that went beyond what the White House seemed willing to do initially.
Art Levine: New Era in Washington? AFL-CIO, Chamber Join Hands, Liberals Win One on Social Security Art Levine 2011
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What's especially notable about this campaign is that it didn't simply hew to whatever centrist, business-leaning line-of-the-week that the White House was promoting in promoting a "reform" agenda -- as did the progressive coalitions supporting health care and financial reform -- but supported an independent agenda that went beyond what the White House seemed willing to do initially.
Art Levine: New Era in Washington? AFL-CIO, Chamber Join Hands, Liberals Win One on Social Security Art Levine 2011
Related Words
synonyms (107)
Words with the same meaning
- amputate
- ax
- bisect
- block out
- blow down
- blow over
- bowl down
- bowl over
- bring down
- bulldog
- butcher
- carve
- cast
- cast down
- chisel
- chop
- chop down
- cleave
- color
- create
- cut
- cut away
- cut down
- cut in two
- cut off
- dash down
- deck
- dichotomize
- dissever
- down
- drop
- efform
- excise
- fashion
- fell
- fetch down
- figure
- fissure
- fix
- floor
- forge
- form
- formalize
- found
- frame
- gash
- ground
- hack
- halve
- hew down
- hue
- incise
- jigsaw
- knead
- knock down
- knock out
- lance
- lay level
- lay low
- lay out
- level
- lick into shape
- mint
- model
- mold
- mow down
- pare
- precipitate
- prostrate
- prune
- pull down
- rase
- raze
- rend
- rive
- rough out
- roughcast
- roughhew
- saw
- scissor
- sculpt
- sculpture
- send headlong
- set
- sever
- shape
- slash
- slice
- slit
- snip
- split
- spread-eagle
- stamp
- sunder
- supinate
- tailor
- take down
- tear
- thermoform
- throw
- throw down
- topple
- trip
- tumble
- whack down
- whittle
- work
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Words that are found in similar contexts
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Variants
rhymes (205)
Words with the same terminal sound
- Baku
- Blue
- Cebu
- Chengdu
- Chou
- Chu
- Crewe
- Drew
- Ewe
- Few
- Fu
- Hu
- Hue
- Hugh
- Jammu
- Jew
- Kalamazoo
- Kew
- Koo
- Kwangju
- Lemieux
- Lou
- Lu
- M2
- Mew
- Mu
- New
- Nu
- Peru
- Pooh
- Pru
- Prue
- Pu
- Q
- Que
- Ru
- Sioux
- Stew
- Stu
- Su
- Sue
- Timbuktu
- Tsu
- Tu
- Tue
- U
- Urdu
- Wenzhou
- Wu
- Yue
- Zhou
- accrue
- adieu
- ado
- anew
- askew
- babu
- ballyhoo
- bamboo
- bleu
- blew
- blue
- boo
- brew
- brue
- canoe
- chew
- choo
- chou
- clue
- construe
- coo
- coup
- coups
- crew
- cue
- debut
- dew
- do
- doo
- drew
- drive-thru
- due
- ensue
- eschew
- ewe
- few
- flew
- flu
- flue
- fondue
- foo
- fu
- glew
- glue
- gnu
- goo
- grew
- gu
- gue
- hewe
- hitherto
- hoo
- hue
- hullabaloo
- imbue
- into
- isu
- jew
- jus
- kangaroo
- katmandu
- kazoo
- knew
- kyu
- leu
- lew
- lieu
- loo
- lue
- m2
- mew
- misconstrue
- moo
- mu
- neveu
- new
- nu
- ooh
- oooh
- ou
- outdo
- outgrew
- overdo
- overdue
- overthrew
- perdue
- pew
- phew
- plew
- poo
- pooh
- prew
- pugh
- pursue
- q
- q.
- qu
- que
- queue
- redo
- renew
- review
- revue
- rew
- roux
- rue
- screw
- shampoo
- shew
- shoe
- shoo
- shu
- skew
- slew
- soo
- spew
- stew
- strew
- subdue
- sue
- taboo
- tattoo
- tatu
- tew
- thankyou
- thew
- threw
- through
- thru
- to
- too
- trew
- true
- tue
- two
- u
- undo
- undue
- unglue
- untrue
- view
- vue
- wahoo
- whew
- who
- withdrew
- woo
- wu
- xu
- yew
- you
- yu
- yue
- zoo
TrueObsession14 commented on the word hew
Reminding myself of my intentions and goals helps me hew to my studying routine.
October 2, 2014