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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



... glimmer 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. ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis
... been torn to pieces and devoured. I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long wanting an inch; but it went against my stomach to draw the carcase off the bed, where it still lay bleeding. I observed it had yet some life; but, with a strong slash across the neck, I ...
— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift
... brave Poyntz? And of your Generall Massey? (29) If you petition for a peace, These gallants they will slash yee. Where now are your reformadoes? To Scotland gone together: 'Twere better they were fairly trusst Then they should bring them ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay
... of the Earl of Oxford, and this should be his epitaph. Lord Bolingbroke is undoubtedly writing a History, but I believe will not live to finish it, because he takes it up too high, viz. from the Restoration. In all probability he'll cut and slash Lord Oxford. This is only my guess. ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift
... comes to children at Christmas time. They might better be engaged in brass-ring-snatching contests at the merry-go-rounds of public fairs. I wanted to brush them all over with a wave of the hand as you might the battalions of the nursery floor. Just drilling and drilling in order to slash at one another some day. Flight! flight! It makes one's mind as big and broad as the world. Oh, what a wonderful talk I'll have for my ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer


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