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Slash   /slæʃ/   Listen
Slash

noun
1.
A wound made by cutting.  Synonyms: cut, gash, slice.
2.
An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind).
3.
A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.  Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, solidus, stroke, virgule.
4.
A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument.  Synonym: gash.
verb
(past & past part. slashed; pres. part. slashing)
1.
Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete.  Synonym: cut down.
2.
Beat severely with a whip or rod.  Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip.  "The children were severely trounced"
3.
Cut open.  Synonym: gash.
4.
Cut drastically.
5.
Move or stir about violently.  Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss.



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"Slash" Quotes from Famous Books



... "I'll slash their tires for luck," said Amos Hiltze. "And we can send a couple of men to look for them. Then we can send back for them later ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... many controversies worthy a passion, and yet never any dispute without, not only in divinity but inferior arts. What a [Greek omitted] and hot skirmish is betwixt S. and T. in Lucian! How do grammarians hack and slash for the genitive case in Jupiter! How do they break their own pates, to salve that of Priscian! "Si foret in terris, rideret Democritus." Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given and credits slain, for ...
— Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend • Sir Thomas Browne
... wrathfully, and sat up with a kind of hopeless gesture of his hard young hands. "Aw Gee!" he said aloud, and suddenly he felt a great wet blob rolling down his freckled cheek. He smashed it across into his hair with a quick slash of his dirty hand as if it had been a mosquito annoying him, and lest the other eye might be meditating a like trick he gave that a vicious dab and hauled out the other paper, more as a matter of form than because he had a deep interest in it. All through the description of those wonderful Shafton ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... listen to people, and see that they are left alone. To leave people alone at the right minute is a very great necessity. Don't you know those gardens that look as if they were always being fussed and slashed and cut about? There's no sense of life in them. One has to slash sometimes, and then leave it. I believe in growth even more than in organisation. Still, I don't doubt that you have helped Maud, and I am very glad of it. I wanted you to make friends with her. ...
— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson
... he worked, swiftly, at ease. The room was still. Carol tried to look at him, yet not look at the seeping blood, the crimson slash, the vicious scalpel. The ether fumes were sweet, choking. Her head seemed to be floating away from her body. Her ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis


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