Dictionary Entry
hew
hew is a 3-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
- 2transitive verb
To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.
- 3transitive verb
To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
- 4noun
Destruction by cutting down.
- 5noun
Hue; color.
- 6noun
Shape; form.
- 7verb
strike with an axe; cut down, strike
"hew an oak"
- 8verb
make or shape as with an axe
"hew out a path in the rock"
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