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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.
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.
slash
2[slash]
noun
Often slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.
slash
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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 called: diagonal. forward slash. separatrix. shilling mark. solidus. stroke. virgule.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
slangthe act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash )
a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women
Other 51Թ Forms
- unslashed adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Origin of slash2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Example Sentences
The center is also a plaintiff in an ongoing federal lawsuit out of Northern California against the Department of Human Services over slashed funding, she said.
Starc brought up his half-century with a slash over the slip cordon, but he had earned the right for a stroke of fortune.
A police officer has told jurors how the defendant in the Daniel Anjorin murder trial slashed at him with a "large sword".
But there’s something particularly stomach-turning about squandering tens of millions of dollars on a vanity parade while slashing funds that could help feed those in need.
The WFP says that as a result of the cuts, the agency has had to slash the refugees' rations to 30% of the minimum recommended amount a person should eat to stay healthy.
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