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Hew

/hjˈu/
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(verb) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.

The carpenter will hew the wood.
They had to hew to the rules.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The lumberjack used a heavy axe to ____ the large logs into smaller pieces of firewood.

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