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Antonyms for hack up

Grammar : Verb
Spell : hak
Phonetic Transcription : hæk

Definition of hack up

Origin :
  • "to cut roughly, cut with chopping blows," c.1200, from verb found in stem of Old English tohaccian "hack to pieces," from West Germanic *hakkon (cf. Old Frisian hackia "to chop or hack," Dutch hakken, Old High German hacchon, German hacken), from PIE *keg- "hook, tooth." Perhaps influenced by Old Norse höggva "to hack, hew" (cf. hacksaw). Slang sense of "cope with" (such as in can't hack it) is first recorded in American English 1955, with a sense of "get through by some effort," as a jungle (cf. phrase hack after "keep working away at" attested from late 14c.). Related: Hacked; hacking.
  • As in injure : verb hurt, harm
Example sentences :
  • What wonder is it, pray, that a woodcutter should stand and hack up on a hillside?
  • Extract from : « Children's Literature » by Charles Madison Curry
  • What wonder is it, pray, that a wood-cutter should stand and hack up on a hillside?
  • Extract from : « Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know » by Various
  • Finding that he had ridden the hack up, he desired Leather to leave him there.
  • Extract from : « Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour » by R. S. Surtees
  • As soon as the turf gave place to hard metal she pulled her hack up and proceeded at a walk.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of the Clasped Hands » by Guy Boothby
  • What wonder is it, pray, that a wood cutter should stand and hack up on a hillside?
  • Extract from : « East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon » by Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen

Synonyms for hack up

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