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  • nounsickle
  • nounweapon

synonyms for machete

  • blade
  • knife
  • cleaver
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He got his picture coming out of the bush, the jungle, in Ecuador with the machete.
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Prosecutors accused one of the managers of brandishing a club and machete to threaten workers who were attempting to organize a union.
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All we had was a machete but after dark we all knew where it was—usually thunked into a tree somewhere central.
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Even before Brew’s foot woes, word of a man wielding a machete and threatening hikers worked its way along the trail grapevine.
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In 2015, the city paid $5,000 to a man shot by police while he wielded a machete against the officers.
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Guevara was stabbed more than 140 times with knives and a machete, according to the Daily Progress, with one strike so severe that the machete broke.
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He dug a grave with his machete among the smoking ruins of the hacienda, in which he laid his brother's body.
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Millions of people from Texas to Patagonia have long found the machete an ever-ready tool.
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He seized the lance, and, with it and the machete, retired to the convent.
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To men of to-day this jungle would have been impenetrable, except by the incessant use of axe or machete.
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