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Definition of 'slash'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) slash
to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.

2.  slash
to lash; whip.

3.  slash
to cut, reduce, or alter:
to slash salaries.

4.  slash
to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.

5.  slash
to criticize or censure savagely.

6. (v.i.) slash
to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.

7.  slash
to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.

8. (n.) slash
a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.

9.  slash
a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.

10.  slash
a curtailment, reduction, or alteration:
a slash in prices.

11.  slash
a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.

12.  slash
(in forest land)

13.  slash
an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.

14.  slash
the debris itself.

15. (n.) slash
Often, slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.

Etymology: (1645–55, Amer.; orig. uncert.)

Definition of 'slash'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) cut, gash, slash, slice
a wound made by cutting
"he put a bandage over the cut"

2. (noun) slash
an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

3. (noun) solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix
a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

4. (verb) slash, gash
a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

5. (verb) slash, cut down
cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

6. (verb) flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
beat severely with a whip or rod
"The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"

7. (verb) slash, gash
cut open
"she slashed her wrists"

8. (verb) slash
cut drastically
"Prices were slashed"

9. (verb) convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate
move or stir about violently
"The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

Definition of 'slash'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) slash
to make a long thin cut using a swinging motion
The cat slashed the dog across the nose.

2. slash
to lower a number by a large amount; = cut
Stores are slashing prices to get rid of goods.

3. (noun) slash
a long motion made to cut
the slash of the sword

4. slash
a slanted line ( / or ) used to separate words or numbers
the backward slash used in web addresses

Definition of 'slash'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) slash
a long cut; a cut made at random

2. (noun) slash
a large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings

3. (noun) slash
swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes

4. (verb) slash
to cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits

5. (verb) slash
to lash; to ply the whip to

6. (verb) slash
to crack or snap, as a whip

7. (verb) slash
to strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly

Definitions of 'slash'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. slash
Common name for the slant (‘/’, ASCII 0101111) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.

Translation of 'slash'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make long cuts in (cloth etc) He slashed his victim's face with a razor.
Afrikaans: sny	Arabic: جُرْح طَويل في الجِلْد	Bulgarian: разрязвам
Brazilian: golpear	Czech: pořezat	German: aufschlitzen
Danish: snitte	Greek: σκίζω, πετσοκόβω	Spanish: dar un tajo, rajar
Estonian: (lõhki) lõikama	Farsi: چاك دادن	Finnish: viillellä
French: taillader	Hebrew: לַחתוֹך	Hindi: काटना
Croatian: razrezati, rasporiti	Hungarian: (fel)hasít	Indonesian: menyayat
Icelandic: rista	Italian: sfregiare; squarciare	Japanese: 深く切る
Korean: (칼 등으로) 깊이 베다	Lithuanian: (su)pjaustyti, (su)raižyt	Latvian: []šķelt; []cirst; sakapāt
Malay: menyayat	Dutch: kerven	Norwegian: splitte, flenge
Polish: ciachnąć	Persian: چاك دادن	Pashto: غوڅول، څيرل: چاك كول، چوو
Portuguese: golpear	Romanian: a cresta	Russian: разрезать; поранить
Slovak: prerezať, (roz)seknúť	Slovenian: razparati	Serbian: raseći
Swedish: skära (rista, fläka) upp	Thai: ฟัน	Turkish: şiddetle vurmak
Taiwanese: 劃出一道裂縫或傷口	Ukrainian: порізати	Urdu: شگاف ڈالنا
Vietnamese: rạch, cắt	Chinese: 长切口
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