hew
Betekenis (English)
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- To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
- To shape; to form.
- To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
Concepten
Synonyms
break asunder
fell a tree
winning and opening
mining work
cut into pieces
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/hjuː/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English hewen, from Old English hēawan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to strike, hew, forge”). Cognate to German hauen, Dutch houwen and Swedish hugga. Sense 3 derives from the phrase hew to the line (literally “cut evenly with an axe or saw”).
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