axe murder

American  

[aks mur-der] / ˈæks ˈmɜr dər /

noun

axe murders plural

1. the act of committing homicide with an axe or similar weapon (often used rhetorically as the archetype of a violent crime).

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verb (used with object)

axe murdered, axe murdering

1. to commit homicide using an axe (sometimes used nonliterally for morbidly humorous effect).

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• axe murderer
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• axe murders
  plural