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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



... her eyes so as not to meet his glance, and Rosalie, who had heard all about him, flew into a rage. "Peasant! Peasant!" she murmured; and then seizing her son's hand: "Give him a good slash ...
— Une Vie, A Piece of String and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant
... Thro' the dread gantlet; Death gurgles in the gash Of furious-dealt saber-slash; Over them the volleys crash Thro' the trees like a whirlwind. They pass through the fire of death; Pant riders and steeds for breath; "Halt!" cried the Captain Then he looked up the hill; There on the summit still The "Third Company" paltered. Right through ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon
... booths, and there I sleepit as sound as if I was in a castle. Not but I was disturbed with some of the night-walking queans and swaggering billies, but when they found there was nothing to be got by me but a slash of my Andrew Ferrara, they bid me good-night for a beggarly Scot; and I was e'en weel pleased to be sae cheap rid of them. And in the morning, I cam daikering here, but sad wark I had to find the way, for ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott
... making no Reply, cuts off his Nose, and throws it contemptibly on the Ground; and the other does something to himself that he thinks surpasses him, and perhaps deprives himself of Lips and an Eye: So they slash on 'till one gives out, and many have dy'd in this Debate. And it's by a passive Valour they shew and prove their Activity; a sort of Courage too brutal to be applauded by our Black Hero; nevertheless, he express'd his Esteem ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn
... big blade of the knife, and made a careless and almost savage slash at Maskull's upper arm. The wound was deep, and ...
— A Voyage to Arcturus • David Lindsay


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