hewed
/hjuːd/
hewed is the simple past of hew.
hewed is the past participle of hew.
Meaning of hew
Verb
hew (third-person singular simple present hews, present participle hewing, simple past hewed or (rare) hew, past participle hewn or hewed or (archaic) hewen)
- To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
- Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder[…]1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To shape; to form.
- to hew out a sepulchre
- To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
- Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography, Jennings & Graham, page 428
Words formed from hewed
Phrases with hewed
Words that rhyme with hewed
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- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
- glued
Questions about hewed
- What is hewed the simple past of?
- Hewed is the simple past of hew.
- How do you pronounce hewed?
- Hewed is pronounced /hjuːd/.
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