hack at
Frequency: 6.24.1 per million words
To aim rough, repeated cuts or blows at something.
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Examples (10)
- She hacked at the hedge with the shears.
- The lost hiker hacked at the thick vines with his small knife.
- He was hacking at the block of ice, trying to break it into smaller pieces.
- The critic mercilessly hacked at the author's new novel.
- For hours, the rescue team hacked at the wreckage to free the trapped passengers.
- The woodpecker relentlessly hacked at the tree trunk.
- Frustrated, he began to hack at the tangled rope with a shard of glass.
- You can't just hack at the sculpture; you need to carve it with precision.
- The knights hacked at each other's shields during the intense battle.
- I watched the butcher hack at the large piece of meat with a cleaver.