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Wield An Ax Crossword Clue

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99%3Exact Match!
verb

• make or shape as with an axe

• strike with an axe; cut down, strike

25%9 It requires strength to wield
noun

• a sharp-tongued domineering wife

• a broadax used as a weapon

25%5 What Star Wars' Jedi and Sith wield
noun

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

verb

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

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New York Times Bonus01 Sep 2014 Down 8
New York Times25 Jan 1981 Down 71
New York Times24 Jan 1981 Across 43
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