Ax

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/{ks/}}

Thesaurus
amputate; battle-ax; beheading; bisect; blade; block; boot out; bounce; burning; butcher; can; capital punishment; carve; cashier; cashiering; chop; cleave; cold steel; conge; cross; crucifixion; cut; cut away; cut in two; cut off; cutlery; cutter; dagger; death chair; death chamber; decapitation; decollation; defenestration; deposal; dichotomize; discharge; disemployment; dismissal; displacing; dissever; drop; drumming out; edge tools; electric chair; electrocution; excise; execution; fire; firing; fissure; forced separation; furloughing; fusillade; gallows; gallows-tree; garrote; gas chamber; gash; gassing; gibbet; guillotine; hack; halberd; halter; halve; hanging; hatchet; hemlock; hemp; hempen collar; hew; hot seat; incise; jigsaw; judicial murder; kick out; knife; lance; lapidation; layoff; lethal chamber; maiden; naked steel; necktie party; noose; pare; pigsticker; pink slip; point; poisoning; poleax; prune; puncturer; removal; rend; retirement; rive; rope; sack; saw; scaffold; scissor; sever; sharpener; shooting; slash; slice; slit; snip; split; stake; steel; stoning; strangling; strangulation; sunder; surplusing; suspension; sword; tear; terminate; the ax; the block; the boot; the bounce; the chair; the gallows; the gas chamber; the gate; the guillotine; the hot seat; the rope; the sack; ticket; toad sticker; tomahawk; tree; walking papers; whittle