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slash
1[ slash ]
verb (used with object)
- to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- to lash; whip.
- to cut, reduce, or alter:
The editors slashed the story to half its length.
Synonyms: ,
- to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
- to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.
verb (used without object)
- to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.
- to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.
noun
- a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
- a curtailment, reduction, or alteration:
a drastic slash of prices.
- a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
- Compare forward slash ( def ), backslash ( def ).
- a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur; a virgule:
you and/or your dependents.
- a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule:
She got 3/4 of the answers correct.
“Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)
- (in forest land)
- an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.
- the debris itself.
- Slang. slash fiction ( def ).
slash
2[ slash ]
noun
- Often slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.
slash
/ æʃ /
verb
- to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
- to lash with a whip
- to make large gashes in
to slash tyres
- to reduce (prices, etc) drastically
- to criticize harshly
- to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed
- to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting
noun
- a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
- a cut or rent made by such a stroke
- a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
- littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
- an area so littered
- Also calleddiagonalforward slashseparatrixshilling marksolidusstrokevirgule a short oblique stroke used in text to separate items of information, such as days, months, and years in dates ( 18/7/80 ), alternative words ( and/or ), numerator from denominator in fractions ( 55/103 ), etc
- slang.the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash )
- a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women
Other Word Forms
- ܲ· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Origin of slash2
Word History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Example Sentences
Davenport has said it would be reckless to offer big raises, considering the sex abuse settlement, an estimated $2 billion in wildfire costs and threats from the Trump administration to slash millions in federal funding.
In January the country's new Communist party chief, To Lam, embarked on a program to slash bureaucracy that could impress Elon Musk, who has been overseeing the Trump administration's controversial cost-cutting team.
Longer wait times for care are expected from a Department of Veterans Affairs that, despite receiving a record number of disability claims, is proposing to slash its workforce by 17%.
Calderon is sponsoring legislation favored by Edison that would slash the credits that many homeowners receive for generating electricity with rooftop solar panels.
Block is among major San Francisco Bay Area tech companies slashing their payrolls this year.
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