HEW OUT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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