Hewn

The answer

AXED

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AXED answer page.

Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AXED

Every other clue in this collection answered by AXED, most used first.

• Fired - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• Chopped down - used 73 times, most recently in 2026
• Canned - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Pink-slipped - used 29 times, most recently in 2023
• Let go - used 28 times, most recently in 2023
• Chopped - used 19 times, most recently in 2017
• Cut - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Sent packing - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Cut down - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Gave the boot - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Got rid of - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Canceled - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Cut drastically - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Hewed - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Used a hatchet - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Gave a pink slip to - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Terminated - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Canceled abruptly - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Abruptly fired - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
• Took a hatchet to - used 6 times, most recently in 2026

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• Regarding - ASTO, used 806 times
• Vicinity - AREA, used 794 times
• Region - AREA, used 740 times
• Surrounded by - AMID, used 628 times

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