[
US
/ˈsɫæʃ/
]
[ UK /slˈæʃ/ ]
[ UK /slˈæʃ/ ]
NOUN
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
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a wound made by cutting
he put a bandage over the cut - a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
VERB
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cut drastically
Prices were slashed -
move or stir about violently
The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed - cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
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beat severely with a whip or rod
The children were severely trounced
The teacher often flogged the students -
cut open
she slashed her wrists
How To Use slash In A Sentence
- Another protuberance outlined with two vertical incisions serves as a nose, and a horizontal slash suggests a mouth.
- Expect original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to not slash spending in customer-facing systems.
- Also, if Shilpa is subjected to more teasing from Jade's crew, she may well go postal and slash all the Celebrity Big Brother housemates' throats open with a breadknife. Big Brother Celebrity Hijack Betting Odds: Double Eviction, Emilia Out?
- So basically, the thought is that this woman is going to start slashing the department, and only the really competent people will remain.
- Tightly woven wool, wool melton, felted or boiled wool, leather and suede along with faux leather and suede all can be clipped, snipped, slashed or punched without fraying.
- The type of damage being done to the cars ranges from wing mirrors being snapped off to glue being put in locks and tyres being slashed, with victims facing bills of hundreds of pounds.
- One knife had slashed his side, penetrating upwards through the muscle and entering the lung.
- An unclassifiable mixture of animation, drama, love story, coming-of-age-tale-slash-concert movie, Hedwig is adapted from Mitchell's off-Broadway hit of the same name.
- He slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt.
- The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City