hack
verb/hæk/
/hæk/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they hack | /hæk/ /hæk/ |
| he / she / it hacks | /hæks/ /hæks/ |
| past simple hacked | /hækt/ /hækt/ |
| past participle hacked | /hækt/ /hækt/ |
| -ing form hacking | /ˈhækɪŋ/ /ˈhækɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to hit and cut somebody/something in a rough, heavy way
- hack somebody/something + adv./prep. I hacked the dead branches off.
- They were hacked to death as they tried to escape.
- We had to hack our way through the jungle.
- + adv./prep. We hacked away at the bushes.
Extra Examples- She hacked at the hedge with the shears.
- The body had been hacked to pieces.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- away
- off
- at
- hack something to bits
- hack something to pieces
- hack somebody to death
- …
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- [transitive] hack somebody/something + adv./prep. to kick something roughly or without control
- He hacked the ball away.
- [intransitive, transitive] (computing) to secretly find a way of looking at and/or changing information on somebody else’s computer system without permission
- hack into something He hacked into the bank's computer.
- hack something They had hacked secret data.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (computing) to work together informally and often quickly with other people to create a program using different technologies
- We spent the morning hacking around with HTML and building web pages.
- [transitive] can/can’t hack it(informal) to be able/not able to manage in a particular situation
- Lots of people leave this job because they can't hack it.
- [intransitive] (usually go hacking)(especially British English) to ride a horse for pleasureTopics Hobbiesc2
- [intransitive] (North American English, informal) to drive a taxi
Word Originverb senses 1 to 4 Old English haccian ‘cut in pieces’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hakken and German hacken. verb senses 5 to 6 Middle English: abbreviation of hackney ‘horse or pony of a light breed’.
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