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— English words —

• poleaxe n. An ax having both a blade and a hammer face; used to slaughter cattle.
• poleaxe n. (Historical) A long-handled battle axe, being a combination of ax, hammer and pike.
• poleaxe v. (Transitive) To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe.
• poleaxe v. (Transitive, figurative) To astonish; to shock or surprise utterly.
• poleaxe v. (Transitive, figurative) To stymie, thwart, cripple, paralyze.
• pole-axe n. Alternative spelling of poleaxe.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• poleaxe s. (Arma) alabarda.
• pole-axe s. (Arma) variação de poleaxe.

36 English words from 6 English definitions

Alternative and as␣if astonish axe battle battle␣axe being blade both cattle combination cripple face fell figurative hammer handled having Historical long paralyze pike poleaxe shock slaughter someone spelling stymie surprise thwart Transitive used used␣to utterly with

1 English word from 2 foreign definitions

poleaxe

3 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

alabarda Arma variação

3 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

poleaxed poleaxes pole-axes

16 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

axe Axe lea Lea LEA ole OLE olé -ole 'Ole pol POL Pol. pole Pole poleax

6 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ael elo Elo exa- lop Lop

5 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

exepanol hexapole poleaxed poleaxes pole-axes

One anagram found minus a letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

poleax

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

pollaxe

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

poleax

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