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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, abridge
- 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.
- Compare forward slash ( def ), backslash ( def ).
- 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 ( def ).
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 calleddiagonalforward slashseparatrixshilling marksolidusstrokevirgule 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 Words From
- un·slashed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Origin of slash2
Word History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Example Sentences
"They do not want to take their foot off the brake here. If they suddenly start slashing the heat pump grant that's going to make the market crash," he said.
The tech mogul's Department of Government Efficiency taskforce has moved to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, cut billions of dollars in foreign aid and slash programmes across the US government.
“So much of the anti-immigrant sentiment over public benefits is particularly sharp, because we’re a moment where all of them are slashed,” he said.
Forest Service workers who were fired as part of President Trump and billionaire advisor Elon Musk’s push to slash the federal workforce.
The Trump Administration has announced that it intends to slash 90% of USAID's foreign aid contracts, which would eliminate $60 billion in U.S. humanitarian assistance across the world, The Associated Press reported.
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