hew

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hew - English

Pronunciation

Homophones: hue, Hiw, Hugh

Verb

hew (third-person singular simple present hews, present participle hewing, simple past hewed or (rare) hew, past participle hewed or hewn)

(transitive, intransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
(transitive) To shape; to form.
- One of the most widely used typefaces in the world was hewn by the English printer and typographer John Baskerville.
- to hew out a sepulchre
(transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.

Derived terms

Translations

Belarusian: руба́ць impf (rubácʹ), сячы́ impf (sjačý)
Bulgarian: сека (bg) (seka), отсичам (bg) (otsičam)
Dutch: houwen (nl)
Esperanto: tondi (eo)
Finnish: hakata (fi) (to chop, especially wood)
French: tailler (fr)
German: einhauen (de), bearbeiten (de), hauen (de)
Hungarian: vág (hu), vagdal (hu)
Latgalian: tēst
Latin: dolō
Latvian: tēst
Maori: hau (mi), hahau, hauhau
Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: рѫбити impf (rǫbiti), сѣщи impf (sěšti)
Polish: rąbać (pl) impf, siec (pl) impf
Portuguese: desbastar (pt)
Romanian: ciopli (ro), sculpta (ro)
Russian: руби́ть (ru) (rubítʹ), сечь (ru) impf (sečʹ)
Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: rubaś impf
Spanish: cortar (es)
Swedish: hugga (sv)
Ukrainian: руба́ти impf (rubáty), руби́ти impf (rubýty), сі́кти impf (síkty)

Azerbaijani: yonmaq (az)
Bulgarian: дялам (bg) (djalam)
Dutch: vormen (nl), modelleren (nl), boetseren (nl),
Finnish: muovata (fi), muokata (fi), muotoilla (fi)
French: façonner (fr), modeler (fr)
Portuguese: moldar (pt)
Russian: придава́ть (ru) impf (pridavátʹ) (форму), обтёсывать impf (obtjósyvatʹ), выреза́ть (ru) impf (vyrezátʹ)
Spanish: tallar (es), labrar (es)

Dutch: zich conformeren met, zich richten naar
French: se conformer (fr), accommoder (fr), assujettir (fr)
Russian: приде́рживаться (ru) impf (pridérživatʹsja), соотве́тствовать (ru) impf (sootvétstvovatʹ), согласо́вываться (ru) impf (soglasóvyvatʹsja)

Noun

hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews)

(obsolete) Destruction by cutting down or hewing.

Noun

hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews)

(obsolete) Hue; colour.
(obsolete) Shape; form.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for hew in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

hew - Zaghawa

Noun

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