axe murdering
Chopper-based homicide act
Axe murdering is killing someone with an axe—a particularly brutal method that evokes horror films and sensational crimes.
The compound appears most often as an attributive: an axe-murdering maniac, axe-murdering rampage.
The phrase has become somewhat cartoonish through overuse in fiction, often deployed for dark humor: What's he going to do, go on an axe-murdering spree?
- slaughterKilling for meat
- hatchetSmall one-handed chopper
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- killCause death
- serial killerRecurring lone murderer
mutilate · Friday the 13th · thriller · psychopathy · Lizzie Borden · crime of passion · brutalize · fear · chainsaw · slay · slasher films · dismemberment · rage · forensic evidence · blood spatter · bloody · crime scene · cleaver
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Harmful substance exposure
lethal injection · sniping · gassing · drone strike · shooting
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Preserving human existence
healing · resuscitation · nursing · caregiving · emergency medicine
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Holding tenderly, protectively
soothing · comforting · hand-holding · peaceful coexistence · kindness
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