Tom hacked Mary's leg off with a rusty machete.
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Machete
//məˈʃɛ.ti//
Synonyms for "machete" (14 found)
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Translations
64 translations across 52 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- thikare noun (a sword-like tool)
Arabic
1 entries- مِحَشّ noun (a sword-like tool)
Armenian
1 entries- մաչետե noun (a sword-like tool)
Bulgarian
1 entries- маче́тe noun (a sword-like tool)
Catalan
1 entries- matxet noun (a sword-like tool)
Chamicuro
1 entries- sapla noun (a sword-like tool)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 大柄刀 noun (a sword-like tool)
- 關刀 /关刀 noun (a sword-like tool)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 大砍刀 noun (a sword-like tool)
- 寬刃刀 /宽刃刀 noun (a sword-like tool)
- 彎刀 /弯刀 noun (a sword-like tool)
Czech
1 entries- mačeta noun (a sword-like tool)
Dutch
1 entries- kapmes noun (a sword-like tool)
Esperanto
1 entries- maĉeto noun (a sword-like tool)
Finnish
1 entries- viidakkoveitsi noun (a sword-like tool)
French
2 entries- coupe-coupe noun (a sword-like tool)
- machette noun (a sword-like tool)
Galician
2 entries- machete noun (a sword-like tool)
- talladeira noun (a sword-like tool)
Georgian
1 entries- მაჩეტე noun (a sword-like tool)
German
1 entries- Machete noun (a sword-like tool)
Greek
2 entries- ματσέτα noun (a sword-like tool)
- μαχαίρα noun (a sword-like tool)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- manchèt noun (a sword-like tool)
Hebrew
1 entries- מצ׳טה noun (a sword-like tool)
Hungarian
3 entries- bozótvágó kés noun (a sword-like tool)
- machete noun (a sword-like tool)
- macséta noun (a sword-like tool)
Icelandic
1 entries- sveðja noun (a sword-like tool)
Italian
1 entries- machete noun (a sword-like tool)
Japanese
2 entries- マチェテ noun (a sword-like tool)
- 鉈 noun (a sword-like tool)
K'iche'
1 entries- machet, muru, ch'ich' noun (a sword-like tool)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- shō noun (a sword-like tool)
Khmer
1 entries- លៀម noun (a sword-like tool)
Korean
1 entries- 마체테 noun (a sword-like tool)
Krio
1 entries- kɔtlas noun (a sword-like tool)
Lithuanian
1 entries- mačetė noun (a sword-like tool)
Macedonian
1 entries- маче́та noun (a sword-like tool)
Marathi
1 entries- मचेटे noun (a sword-like tool)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- putshari noun (a sword-like tool)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- machete noun (a sword-like tool)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- machete noun (a sword-like tool)
Oromo
1 entries- gajaraa noun (a sword-like tool)
Persian
1 entries- کارد بزرگ و سنگین noun (a sword-like tool)
Polish
1 entries- maczeta noun (a sword-like tool)
Portuguese
3 entries- catana noun (a sword-like tool)
- facão noun (a sword-like tool)
- machete noun (a sword-like tool)
Russian
1 entries- маче́те noun (a sword-like tool)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- mačeta noun (a sword-like tool)
Spanish
1 entries- machete noun (a sword-like tool)
Swahili
1 entries- panga noun (a sword-like tool)
Swedish
1 entries- machete noun (a sword-like tool)
Tagalog
1 entries- sundang noun (a sword-like tool)
Taroko
1 entries- slmadac noun (a sword-like tool)
Thai
2 entries- พร้า noun (a sword-like tool)
- มีดพร้า noun (a sword-like tool)
Turkish
1 entries- pala noun (a sword-like tool)
Ukrainian
1 entries- маче́те noun (a sword-like tool)
Vietnamese
1 entries- rựa noun (a sword-like tool)
Walloon
1 entries- matchete noun (a sword-like tool)
Welsh
1 entries- twca noun (a sword-like tool)
Záparo
1 entries- sa̲hwere noun (a sword-like tool)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Tom cut the vampire's arm off with a machete.
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Where did Tom find the machete?
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Layla was standing there, holding a machete.
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