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Verb: give the axe
Usage: informal
  1. Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
    - displace, fire, give notice, can [N. Amer, informal], dismiss, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate
     
  2. Terminate a relationship abruptly
    - give the bounce [US, informal], give the gate [US, informal]

Derived forms: gave the axe, given the axe, giving the axe, gives the axe

Type of: break, break up, part, remove, separate, split, split up

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give it the deep six
give notice
give off
give one's best
give or take
give out
give over
give rise
give suck
give thanks
give the axe
give the bounce
give the eye
give the game away
give the gate
give the glad eye
give the once over
give the sack
give tongue to
give up
give vent