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[ slash ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
  2. to lash; whip.
  3. to cut, reduce, or alter:

    The editors slashed the story to half its length.

    Synonyms: ,

  4. to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
  5. to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.


verb (used without object)

  1. to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.
  2. to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.

noun

  1. a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
  2. a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
  3. a curtailment, reduction, or alteration:

    a drastic slash of prices.

  4. a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
    1. 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.

    2. 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)

  5. (in forest land)
    1. an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.
    2. the debris itself.

slash

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[ slash ]

noun

  1. Often slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.

slash

/ ²õ±ôæʃ /

verb

  1. to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
  2. to lash with a whip
  3. to make large gashes in

    to slash tyres

  4. to reduce (prices, etc) drastically
  5. to criticize harshly
  6. to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed
  7. to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
  2. a cut or rent made by such a stroke
  3. a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
    1. littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
    2. an area so littered
  4. 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
  5. slang.
    the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash )
  6. a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of slash1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English slaschen, perhaps from Old French esclachier “to breakâ€

Origin of slash2

An Americanism dating back to 1645–55; origin uncertain
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of slash1

C14 slaschen, perhaps from Old French esclachier to break
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Within six months, Nintendo had slashed the price by almost half, and over time it picked up traction.

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Libraries across California are bracing for cuts to early literacy, information access and continuing education programs after the Trump administration’s latest effort to slash federal spending took aim at the nation’s libraries and museums.

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County officials have said the money will come from draining the county’s rainy day fund, slashing department budgets and taking out bonds.

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In return the assembly slashed his budgets, impeached an unprecedented number of his political appointees, and tried to investigate his wife for corruption.

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The company is saddled with billions of dollars in debt and has slashed thousands of jobs to cut costs.

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