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  • verb To murder (someone) with an axe

Etymologies

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axe + murder or Back-formation from axe-murderer.

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Examples

  • The story is a continuation and a complete fouling-up of 'Hansel and Gretel'; it contains dirt-eating, largely off-stage homosexual predation (you get to see the preliminaries and the aftermath), audible but not visible heterosexual sex, a witch fondling Hansel's penis, cannibalism, an off-stage axe-murder and beheading of the corpse, and many, many other corpses.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

  • Aaagh Shut Up, I would suggest that besides the crappy axe-murder of an old lady while her back was turned to him, and Tim Ireland, boredom on stilts, you add your own name.

    Memories of the Falklands 2007

  • Now, it may be important to the story that Tom and Doris are divorced, but there has to be a better way to do it than the above, which is about as graceful as an axe-murder.

    on writing by stephen king scribner 2000

  • Brother of axe-murder victim calls for judicial inquiry into the killing Brother of axe-murder victim calls for judicial inquiry into the killing

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • Brother of axe-murder victim calls for judicial inquiry into the killing Brother of axe-murder victim calls for judicial inquiry into the killing

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • How about the inflamed, self-aborbed, homosexual "activists" who daily attempt or commit axe-murder against the societies in which they live, trying to destroy the procreating bonds of the traditional family, and selfishly gain "special minority privileges" for themselves?

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • An alleged "Black Widow" accused of orchestrating the axe-murder of her boyfriend to collect his life insurance is now waiting for a jury to decide her fate.

    Toronto Sun 2009

  • An alleged "Black Widow" accused of orchestrating the axe-murder of her boyfriend to collect his life insurance is now waiting for a jury to decide her fate.

    Toronto Sun 2009

  • Toronto woman found guilty in lesbian axe-murder trial

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • If Wright's famed Prairie Style houses were cool and serene, his love life was anything but - up to and including axe-murder and fire.

    WBUR and NPR - On Point with Tom Ashbrook 2009

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