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HEW OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make or shape as with an axe
Example:
hew out a path in the rock
Synonyms:
hew; hew out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "hew out" is one way to...):
carve (form by carving)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hew out"):
rough-hew; roughcast (hew roughly, without finishing the surface)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
