slashing

[ slash-ing ]

/ ˈslæʃ ɪŋ /

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noun

a slash.

adjective

sweeping; cutting.

violent; severe: a slashing wind.

dashing; impetuous.

vivid; flashing; brilliant.

Informal. very large or fine; splendid: a slashing fortune.

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earnest

full seriousness, as of intention or purpose.

a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.

urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.

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Origin of slashing

First recorded in 1590–1600; slash¹ + -ing¹, -ing²

OTHER WORDS FROM slashing

slash·ing·ly, adverb

Words nearby slashing

slash-saw, slashdot effect, slasher, slasher movie, slashfest, slashing, slat, slat back, slatch, slate, slate black

Definition for slashing (2 of 2)

slash¹

[ slash ]

/ slæʃ /

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.

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)

Compare forward slash, backslash.

(in forest land)

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

Slang. slash fiction.

Origin of slash

1350–1400; Middle English slaschen < ?

SYNONYMS FOR slash

3 abridge, abbreviate.

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OTHER WORDS FROM slash

un·slashed, adjective

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When she held onto her post, Perry followed through, slashing $7.5 million of funding over two years.
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Forty-nine-year-old Elena brings a trembling hand to the bridge of her nose and makes a slashing movement across it.
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In the acknowledgments, Zaicklas confesses a tendency to plant too many clues, and she thanks her editor for slashing them.
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At the head walked the beadle, slashing about at the little boys.
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She whipped him with her questions as though she was slashing his face.
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There was a confused mle of rearing horses, men leaning in the saddle, firing with pistols and slashing with sabres.
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Jimmie Ben, slashing heavily, regardless of injury to himself or any others, had edged the ball toward the Twentieth left.
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Peace here, if possible; skins were not made for mere slitting and slashing!
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British Dictionary definitions for slashing (1 of 2)

slashing

/ (ˈslæʃɪŋ) /

adjective

aggressively or harshly critical (esp in the phrase slashing attack)

Derived forms of slashing

slashingly, adverb

British Dictionary definitions for slashing (2 of 2)

slash

/ (slæʃ) /

verb (tr)

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 into slash tyres

to reduce (prices, etc) drastically

mainly US 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

US and Canadian

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

British slang the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash)

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

Word Origin for slash

C14 slaschen, perhaps from Old French esclachier to break

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