Hew

Definitions: Hew

Hew

Verb

1. Make or shape as with an axe; "hew out a path in the rock".

2. Strike with an axe; cut down, strike; "hew an oak".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hew" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

HEW

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Hew

Depression

Overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.

Disjunction

Sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind; circumcise; cut; incide, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend; rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice.

Form

Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct).

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Crosswords: Hew

References

• HEW - Hamburgische Electricitats-Werke A.G.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

• Heere beginneth a mery jest of Dan Hew, munk of Leicestre (reference)

• Hew Against the Grain (reference)

• Hiking Hew Hampshire (reference)

• Implementation, Change, and the Federal Bureaucracy: School Desegregation Policy in Hew, 1964-1968 (reference)

• Program evaluation at HEW : research versus reality (reference)

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Reorganizing Health in HEW.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1960)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hew": hew away ♦ hew down ♦ hew off ♦ hew one's way ♦ hew out ♦ hew out a career for oneself ♦ hew up. Additional references.

Ending with "hew": rough-hew.

Albanian

hap rrugë me shpatë, pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), përmbahem (abstain, cleave, help, refrain, restrain oneself), latoj (carve, engrave, grave on wood). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), ‏حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, inscribe, make a hole in, pick up, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), ‏حطب (chop, firewood, firing, log, wood), ‏خضع (bend, bow, compel, conquer, knuckle under, kowtow, reclaim, reduce, steady, subdue, subject, subjugate, submit, subordinate, succumb, throw in one's hand, undergo, wash, yield), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, cut, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сека (chop, cut, fell, haggle, incuse, slash, slice, stamp, strike), очуквам (crush, hammer, knock about, lay flat), отсичам (chop, cut down, cut off, cut short, decide firmly, intercept, lop, slice off, snap, strike off, stump), одялвам (trim), нанасям удари, постигам с голямо усилие, повалям (blow down, bring down, deck, drop, fell, flatten, fling down, floor, knock down, lay low, lay out, level, overthrow, pole-ax, precipitate, prostrate, run down, shoot down, stretch out, strike, strike down, throw down, tumble down, zap), издялвам (carve, chamfer). (various references)

Chinese 

� �成 (Hewed, Hewing, hewn), � �伐 . (various references)

Czech

tesat (carve, cut, sculpture), tít, skácet (cut down, hack down, overturn, upset), seknout (chuck, cut), sekat (chop, cut, hack, mow, scythe), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, defeat, fell, hack down, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish). (various references)

Danish

bearbejde groft (to hew, to rough-grind). (various references)

Dutch

houwen (beat, chop, cut, hack, hit, strike, to chop, to hack, to hew), hakken (chipping, chop, chopped response, chopping, cut, felling, hack, hoeing, removal, timber-cutting, to chisel, to chop, to hack, to hew, tree felling), voorbewerken (to hew, to rough-grind), van erts (to chop, to hack, to hew), kool of gesteente (to chop, to hack, to hew). (various references)

Farsi 

قطع کردن (Burst, Cross, Cut, Disconnect, Discontinue, Excise, Intercept, Leaveoff, Out, Retrench, Rupture, Stump, Traverse), ضربه (Brunt, Hack, Hook, Impact, Lash, Pelt, Sock, Strike, Stroke, Thud, Tit, Whop), ضربت (Bat, Bob, Buff, Buffet, Bump, Contusion, Coup, Crack, Hack, Impact, Jar, Jolt, Jow, Knock, Percussion, Plunk, Pounce, Pound, Slap, Stroke, Swat, Thump, Thwack, Whack, Yerk), ذبح (Slaughter), شکاف یاترک نتیجه , شقه , بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references)

Finnish

hakata (chop, cut, hack), veistää (build, build from wood, carve, chip, cut, whittle). (various references)

French

tailler (to hew), se plier � , creuser, couper, équarrir. (various references)

German

hauen (bash, beat, belt, carve, chop, chuck, clap, clobber, clout, conk, cut, cutting, fling, hack, hewed, hit, hoes, knock, lash out, make a thrust, quarry, sculpture, shove, slap, slash, sock, strike, thump, to bash, to chop, to hack, to hew). (various references)

Greek 

πελεκώ (chip, chisel, chop, slaughter). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפסל (carve, chisel, gouge, sculpt), לחטוב (chisel, chop), לחצוב (carve, chisel, quarry, tunnel), לכרות (ablate, cut down, lop, resect). (various references)

Hungarian

vagdal (hewed, hewn, to chop, to gash, to hack, to hash, to hash up, to hew), vág (chip, chop, cut, hack, have a hang-dog look, saw, sawed, sawn, section, slice, to cant a beam, to carve, to cut, to hew, to laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, to saw, to slice off), farag (carve, chisel, grave, scrimshaw, sculpt, sculpture, shave, skive, to carve, to chip, to pare, to sculpt, to sculpture, to trim). (various references)

Indonesian

menebang (cut). (various references)

Italian

tagliare con l'ascia (adze), tagliare (blanking, blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut across, cut chiplessly, cut down, cut off, cut without stock removal, fell, get cut, hack, knife, mow, outline blanking, outline cutting, reap, shear, short cut, slice, snip, to burn, to cut, to hit, trim), sgrossare (chip, chip off, to hew, to rough-grind), fendere (cleave, Rive, slice through, slit, split, splitting, to split), dare colpi d'ascia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

自分の�"�'�"く (to hew one's way out), 切り刻む (to chop up, to hew, to mangle, to mince). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりきざむ (to chop up, to hew, to mangle, to mince), じぶ�"のみち�'ひらく (to hew one's way out). (various references)

Manx

speiy (bill, bill-hook, hack, hoe, mattock, pick), scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, blow out, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), lhieggey (bowl over, cataract, chop down, demolish, dismount, downfall, drop, fall, fall down, fell, fire, overbalance, overflow, pick off, pull down, run over, spill, strike, striking, throw, topple, tumble, weigh down), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references)

Norwegian

hogge (chop). (various references)

Pig Latin

ewhay

Portuguese

heuristico, desbastar (build, build from wood, chip, detruncate, dress type, hew down, lop, pare, prune, reducing, select, single, Spall, thin out, trim, Whittle), derrubar (down, fell, floor, grass, hew down, knock, knock down, lay, overset, overthrow, overturn, prostrate, pull down, put down, shoot down, subvert, throw, tumble, unbuild, upset), decepar (hew down, mutilate, removal of old vines), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, cross out, curtail, cut, cut chiplessly, cut down, cut off, cut without stock removal, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lope, lumber, mow, pollack, pollen, sever, shave, shear, shut off, slice, slicing, slit, strike off, strike out, to "blue pencil", to arrest, to cut, to hit, use the blue pencil, Whittle). (various references)

Romanian

toca (bother, chat, chop, hack, hash, melt, mince, squander), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off). (various references)

Russian 

рубить (chisel, chop, cut, cut down, fall, fell, hack, hackle, mangle, mince), тесать (adz, adze, char), высекать (carve, cut), прорубать. (various references)

Scottish

snaidh (chip, shape, whet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

seći (chip, chop, clip, cut, pare), klesati (emboss). (various references)

Spanish

tallar a (carve, Whittle), tajar (chop, hack), labrar (carve, dress, farm, fashion, shape, till, to fabricate, to machine, to process, to work, work), cortar a hachazos. (various references)

Swedish

tillyxa, hugga (carve, chop, cut, grab, hack, nab, seize, strike, swish). (various references)

Thai

ฟัน. (various references)

Turkish

yontmak (chip, chisel, cut, fair, fine away, fine down, hack, lick into shape, pare, pare off, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, skive, Whittle), yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, disrupt, flaw, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), balta ile kesmek (chop, cut down with an axe, hew down), çentmek (chip, hack, indent, notch, snick). (various references)

Turkmen 

яylmamak. (various references)

Ukranian 

рубати (chaff, chop, cut down, fell, hack, hackle, mangle), розрубувати (rip), прорубувати. (various references)

Welsh

trychu (amputate, cut, lop, pierce), naddu (chip, whittle), cymynu (fell). (various references)

abscidantur, abscide, abscidentur, absciderunt, abscides, abscidet, abscidetur, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, abscisa, abscisae, abscisam, abscisi, absciso, abscisum, abscisus, accidat, acciderant, acciderat, accidere, accideret, acciderit, acciderunt, accidissent, accidisset, accidit, caedam, caedant, caedat, caede, caedebant, caedebat, caedemus, caedendos, caedens, caedent, caedente, caedentem, caedentes, caedentibus, caedere, caederent, caederentur, caedes, caedet, caedetur, caedi, caedimur, caedis, caedite, caeditur, caesa, caesi, caesis, caesorum, caesos, caesum, caesuri, caesus, ceciderant, ceciderat, ceciderint, ceciderit, cecideritque, ceciderunt, cecideruntque, cecidi, cecidimus, cecidisse, cecidissent, cecidisset, cecidisti, cecidit, ceciditque, supercecidit. (various references)

heawan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "hew": hewable, hewed, hewer, hewers, hewing, hewn, hews. (additional references)

Words ending with "hew": cashew, chew, clerihew, eschew, fitchew, grandnephew, nephew, phew, rechew, roughhew, shew, thew, whew. (additional references)

Words containing "hew": cashews, chewable, chewed, chewer, chewers, chewier, chewiest, chewing, chewink, chewinks, chews, chewy, clerihews, eschewal, eschewals, eschewed, eschewing, eschews, fitchews, grandnephews, nephews, rechewed, rechewing, rechews, roughhewed, roughhewing, roughhewn, roughhews, shewbread, shewbreads, shewed, shewer, shewers, shewing, shewn, shews, thewier, thewiest, thewless, thews, thewy, unchewable, unchewed, unhewn, whews. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hew" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahew, Dhew, ehk, eww, hawf, hea, heb, hec, hee, hef, heg, heh, hei, hej, hek, Helwa, heuw, hev, hewd, Hewo, hewt, hewy, hez, hoew, houw, howf, howm, hseq, hwe, hwel, hwer, hwet, hwp, Iew, pheew, Phewa, phewf, phewy, thwe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: eh, he, we.

+1 letter: chew, hewn, hews, howe, phew, shew, thew, whee, when, whet, whew, whey.

+2 letters: chews, chewy, hawed, hawse, hewed, hewer, howes, shewn, shews, shrew, thews, thewy, threw, wecht, weigh, welch, welsh, wench, whale, wheal, wheat, wheel, wheen, wheep, whelk, whelm, whelp, whens, where, whets, whews, wheys, while, whine, white, whole, whore, whose, withe.

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