I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hacking cough (= a bad cough with an unpleasant sound )
hacked off
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I’m getting really hacked off about the whole thing.
hacking cough
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■ ADVERB
away
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The greatest Pharaonic inscription was defaced in antiquity; the disgraced Roman Third Legion had its name hacked away .
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One afternoon as he was hacking away on his violin, a maid appeared with a message from below.
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No doubt you are out there hacking away instead of sleeping in on Sunday morning.
down
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However, every time we had a break into there half we were hacked down .
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Waddle played a lovely through ball to bright I think, who was then hacked down .
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Forests get hacked down because nobody stands up to the logging industry.
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They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre.
■ NOUN
death
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This is grief and hatred and people hacked to death .
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Al-Walid Ibn Yazid: hacked to death .
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To hack to death all that didn't fit in.
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They were hacked to death and their bodies set on fire.
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They were hacked to death as they sunbathed at Sodwana Bay, Zululand.
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Daphne says that many baby elephants arrive at the sanctuary in shock, having seen their entire extended family hacked to death .
piece
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The body had been hacked into pieces and stuffed into a dustbin outside Alice Modes Fashions.
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While Grover tried to sweet-talk him, he would hack a chair to pieces .
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He hacked the pizza into pieces and asked Wickham whether he would like some.
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His body was hacked to pieces before an attempt was made to crudely incinerate it.
way
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She was watching a poor demented man, obviously having a bad day, hacking his way up the fairway towards her.
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Greens hope to rally crowds to block the road-building crews as they hack their way into the thick forest.
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The Rockets seem happier hacking their way through the brambles than skipping across a grassy meadow.
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He hacked his way through his cereal - Alf had been right - or had it been Bert?
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We hacked our way into the left atrium and left ventricle, admiring the porterhouse heft of the muscles.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All of the victims had been hacked to death.
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He picked up an axe and began hacking at the door.
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I couldn't stop hacking last night.
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Robert was hacking at the base of the tree with an axe.
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The bodies of the five men had been hacked to pieces.
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The two women were hacked to pieces by their attackers.
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They managed to hack their way through the jungle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bill Atkinson quickly hacked a driver program that allowed the mouse to move a cursor on the computer screen.
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But against all my expectations, the longer he kept away, the more I found I could hack it.
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But propaganda that all old-growth forests are being hacked down willy-nilly is nonsense.
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Often, for shrubbery to thrive, it first had to be hacked to the ground.
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The first was hacking round Crieff, eventually posting a horrendous score of 112, with Roy Nicolson as his playing partner.
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The lower-tier offence should cover simple hacking and the other, hacking with intent to steal or damage.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
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Of course, that division could be applied to many political hacks who were in Herbst.
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Bookie wire rooms were visible from the streets. Political hacks were mismanaging city agencies.
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A group of hacks were huddled around the gates, waiting for her to emerge.
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Before the election Davies was considered just a political hack .
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the hacks who write TV movies
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The editor sent one of his hacks to interview the murderer's girlfriend.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was heralded by more than one hack as being just another gadget.
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London is, or was, a great refuge for hacks.
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On our wish-list, needless to say, we would name only serious writers, rather than hacks or functionaries.
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The hacks need any crumb of information to help them have a stab at selecting their probable line-ups.