Used a hatchet

The answer

AXED

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

Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1981. It appears in 5 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
• Hewn - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• 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
• 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

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Used to be - WERE, used 162 times
• Used a loom - WOVE, used 70 times
• Used up - GONE, used 53 times
• What you used to be? - THEE, used 36 times
• Used a doorbell - RANG, used 30 times
• Used cars? - RODE, used 24 times

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