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3 lettersPronunciation /hjuː/Part of speech verbSorted ehwStarts with HEnds with W0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. strike with an axe; cut down, strike

Word origin

From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”).

Used in a sentence

  • Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder[…]
  • A favourite at the Old Bailey, and eke at the Sessions, Mr. Stryver had begun cautiously to hew away the lower staves of the ladder on which he mounted.
  • So that all men despised him in the streets, / He hewed the living rock, with sweat and tears,

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