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hew


[hyoo or, often, yoo]

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verb (used with object), hewed, hewed or hewn, hewing.


1.

to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument; chop; hack.


2.

to make, shape, smooth, etc., with cutting blows:
to hew a passage through the crowd; to hew a statue from marble.


3.

to sever (a part) from a whole by means of cutting blows (usually followed by away, off, out, from, etc.):
to hew branches from the tree.


4.

to cut down; fell:
to hew wood; trees hewed down by the storm.




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