an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it"
CASTASIDE
EXPEL
eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"
cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves"
remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"
force to leave or move out; "He was expelled from his native country"
FIRE
go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
start firing a weapon
call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position;
the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning; "they sat by the fire and talked"
intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
the event of something burning (often destructive); "