Meaning & use
Axed
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Cut or chopped with an axe; more commonly used informally to mean dismissed from a job or abruptly cancelled or removed.
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The show was axed after just one season due to low ratings.
He was axed from the project without much explanation.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense, meaning to cut something off decisively, draws on the abruptness and finality of an actual axe blow.
Words with a similar meaning
cancelledfireddismissed
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Words with an opposite meaning
reinstatedrenewed
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