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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: abbreviate, abridgeto 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
/ slæʃ /
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
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
- unslashed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Origin of slash2
Word History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Example Sentences
And if the report is right, it means the central bank could be making a serious mistake by slashing interest rates too fast and too soon while inflation is still elevated.
“When they see that others are getting some money from not burning, slashing and making fires, that will mean others will come.”
The little information about Andrew Carnegie included his taste for “ruthlessly slashing labor costs.”
Rounds of layoffs, the deferred-resignation plan and other voluntary departure programs, including an early-retirement push, slashed the number of civil servants, impeded work at government sites nationwide and reduced services that Americans rely on.
The U.S. has slashed aid that once won goodwill among the region’s 660 million people, from programs to reduce Amazon deforestation to improving job opportunities for Central Americans and helping Colombian farmers get land titles.
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