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tohew

tohew verb: to cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up.

Verb

tohew (third-person singular simple present tohews, present participle tohewing, simple past tohewed, past participle tohewn)

  1. (obsolete) To cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up.

Forms of tohew

third-person singular presenttohews
present participletohewing
pasttohewed
past participletohewn

Origin of tohew

From Middle English tohewen, from Old English tōhēawan (“to hew in pieces, chop up”), from Proto-Germanic *tehawwaną (“to cut to pieces”), equivalent to to- + hew. Cognate with Old Frisian tehawa, Middle Low German tohouwen, Dutch tehouwen, German zerhauen (“to chop up, hack”).

Questions about tohew

What does tohew mean?
Tohew means to cut or hack heavily; cut to pieces, chop up.
What part of speech is tohew?
Tohew is a verb.
What is the past tense of tohew?
The past tense of tohew is tohewed.

Words near tohew in the dictionary

  1. Tohatchi
  2. tohdite
  3. Toher
  4. toheroa
  5. toheroas
  6. tohew
  7. Tohmajärvi
  8. toho
  9. Tohomé
  10. Tohono O'odham
  11. Tohopekaliga

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