See poleaxe on Wiktionary
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"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "poleaxed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "poleaxed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "poleax",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "pole-axe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "pollaxe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "pollax",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "polax",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "poleaxe (third-person singular simple present poleaxes, present participle poleaxing, simple past and past participle poleaxed)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe."
],
"links": [
[
"fell",
"fell"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To fell someone with, or as if with, a poleaxe."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2020 July 26, Sam Jones, “'Everyone is panicking': UK quarantine decision shocks Britons in Spain”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "Lisa Griffin, who runs Brew Rock and an Irish pub in nearby Benidorm, was as poleaxed by the announcement as her customers were.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To astonish; to shock or surprise utterly."
],
"links": [
[
"astonish",
"astonish"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figurative) To astonish; to shock or surprise utterly."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2021 September 25, Zanny Minton Beddoes, “The Mess Merkel leaves behind”, in The Economist:",
"text": "After a lacklustre campaign that has failed to grapple with Germany’s looming problems, the world should expect post-election coalition talks to last for months, poleaxing European politics while they drag on.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stymie, thwart, cripple, paralyze."
],
"links": [
[
"stymie",
"stymie"
],
[
"thwart",
"thwart"
],
[
"cripple",
"cripple"
],
[
"paralyze",
"paralyze"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, figurative) To stymie, thwart, cripple, paralyze."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"rhymes": "-æks"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sǎsičam",
"sense": "to beat as if with a poleaxe",
"word": "съсичам"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to beat as if with a poleaxe",
"word": "zusammenschlagen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to astonish, to shock",
"word": "schockieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to astonish, to shock",
"word": "vor den Kopf stoßen"
}
],
"word": "poleaxe"
}
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