slit
verb (used with object)
to cut apart or open along a line; make a long cut, fissure, or opening in.
have slit
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present perfectof slit.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Grand High Witch must have slit open the mattress and put all the bottles inside and then sewn it all up again.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
A man might have slit up the sacks out of spite, or from sheer mischief, but he wouldn’t have carried off any.”
From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by W. Boucher
Could any one have slit the seal-skin bottom?
From Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.
Yet the devil's in it, Colonel, if I, who have slit a bullet in two upon a knife's edge, hit not my man.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Samuel Richardson
By the time his tea was ready and he had warmed his cold bannock and bacon the gloom was like a black curtain that he might have slit with a knife.
From The Golden Snare by James Oliver Curwood
