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Slashed

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Adjective

1. slashed

patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes

Example Sentences:
'brown iris...slashed with yellow'

2. slashed

having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric

Example Sentences:
'a slashed doublet'
'slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining'

3. cut, slashed

(used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply

Example Sentences:
'the slashed prices attracted buyers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Slashed

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verb (transitive)
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. mainly US
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
noun
8. 
a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
9. 
a cut or rent made by such a stroke
10. 
a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
11. US and Canadian
a. 
littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
b. 
an area so littered
12. Also called: diagonal, forward slash, separatrix, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule
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
13. British and Australian slang
the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash)
14. 
a genre of erotic fiction, usually published on the internet, in which characters from an already existing film, TV series, etc are presented as having a sexual relationship

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Slashed

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verb transitive
1. 
to cut or wound with a sweeping stroke or strokes, as of a knife
2. 
to whip viciously; lash; scourge
3. 
to cut slits in (a fabric, dress, etc.), esp. so as to expose underlying material, usually of another color
4. 
to reduce drastically
to slash prices
5. 
to criticize severely
verb intransitive
6. 
to make a sweeping stroke or strokes with or as with something sharp; cut or criticize violently
noun
7. 
a sweeping stroke made as with a knife
8. 
a cut made by or as by such a stroke; gash; slit
9. 
a short diagonal line (/) used between two words to show that either is applicable (and/or), in dates or fractions (3/8), to express “per” (feet/second), etc.; virgule
see also backslash
10. 
an ornamental slit in a fabric, dress, etc.
11.  US
a. 
an open place in a forest, cluttered with branches, chips, or other debris, as from the cutting of timber
b. 
such debris
noun
a low, swampy area, usually covered with brush

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Slashed

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v. slashed, slash·ing, slash·es
v.tr.
1.
a. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes: slash a path through the underbrush.
b. To make a gash or gashes in.
c. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color: slash a sleeve.
2. Sports To swing a stick at (an opponent) in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.
3. To criticize sharply: The reviewers slashed the composer's work.
4. Sports To hit or propel (a ball, for instance) forcefully in a straight line.
5. To reduce or curtail drastically: slash prices for a clearance sale.
v.intr.
1. To make forceful sweeping strokes with a sharp instrument.
2. To cut one's way with such strokes: We slashed through the dense jungle.
3. To make drastic reductions in something: slashing away at the budget.
n.
1.
a. A forceful sweeping stroke that is made with a sharp instrument.
b. A long cut or other opening made by such a stroke; a gash or slit.
c. A decorative slit in a fabric or garment.
2. A diagonal mark ( / ) that is used especially to separate alternatives, as in and/or, to represent the word per, as in miles/hour, to separate component parts of a URL, as in whitehouse.gov/kids/patriotism/, and to indicate the ends of verse lines printed continuously, as in Old King Cole / Was a merry old soul. Also called virgule.
3.
a. Branches and other residue left on a forest floor after the cutting of timber.
b. often slashes Wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes and trees.
4. A genre of fanfic depicting romantic relationships between characters, usually of the same sex, that are not romantically connected in the original work or works upon which the fanfic is based.
conj.
Informal
As well as; and. Used as a representation of the virgule (as in restaurant/art gallery or actor/director), often styled with hyphens in print: a restaurant slash art gallery; an actor-slash-director.

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