Slash - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|slæʃ|
Brit.
|slæʃ|
noun
- a wound made by cutting (syn: cut, gash, slice)
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information (syn: diagonal, stroke, virgule)
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument (syn: gash)
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information (syn: diagonal, stroke, virgule)
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument (syn: gash)
verb
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete (syn: cut down)
- beat severely with a whip or rod (syn: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip)
- cut open (syn: gash)
- beat severely with a whip or rod (syn: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip)
- cut open (syn: gash)
she slashed her wrists
- cut drasticallyPrices were slashed
- move or stir about violently (syn: convulse, thrash, thrash about, thresh, toss)Extra examples
Someone slashed his car's tires.
He threatened to slash the man's throat.
She slashed a path through the underbrush.
They slashed their way through the jungle.
The company has slashed prices to increase sales.
Funding for the program was slashed.
The firm has slashed its workforce by half.
Someone had slashed the tires.
The leopard's claws slashed through soft flesh.
The workforce has been slashed by 50%.
Cut several slashes across the top of the loaf before baking.
Prices were slashed
Word forms
verb
I/you/we/they: slash
he/she/it: slashes
present participle: slashing
past tense: slashed
past participle: slashed
I/you/we/they: slash
he/she/it: slashes
present participle: slashing
past tense: slashed
past participle: slashed
noun
singular: slash
plural: slashes
singular: slash
plural: slashes
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