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[slash]

verb (used with object)

  1. to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.

  2. to lash; whip.

  3. to cut, reduce, or alter.

    The editors slashed the story to half its length.

    Synonyms: ,
  4. to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.

  5. to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.



verb (used without object)

  1. to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.

  2. to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.

noun

  1. a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.

  2. a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.

  3. a curtailment, reduction, or alteration.

    a drastic slash of prices.

  4. a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.

    1. 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.

    2. 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)

  5. (in forest land)

    1. an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.

    2. the debris itself.

  6. Slang.slash fiction.

slash

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[slash]

noun

  1. Often slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.

slash

/ æʃ /

verb

  1. to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc

  2. to lash with a whip

  3. to make large gashes in

    to slash tyres

  4. to reduce (prices, etc) drastically

  5. to criticize harshly

  6. to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed

  7. to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip

  2. a cut or rent made by such a stroke

  3. a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material

    1. littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down

    2. an area so littered

  4. 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

  5. slangthe act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash )

  6. a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • unslashed adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of slash1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English slaschen, perhaps from Old French esclachier “to break”

Origin of slash2

An Americanism dating back to 1645–55; origin uncertain
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of slash1

C14 slaschen, perhaps from Old French esclachier to break
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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.

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Starc brought up his half-century with a slash over the slip cordon, but he had earned the right for a stroke of fortune.

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A police officer has told jurors how the defendant in the Daniel Anjorin murder trial slashed at him with a "large sword".

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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.

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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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