slash
s lash
- n a wound made by cutting
- n an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- n a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- n a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
- v cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- v beat severely with a whip or rod
- v cut open
she slashed her wrists - v cut drastically
Prices were slashed - v move or stir about violently
- They create a profusion of backstories and revisions that slash and burn through the pieties of patriotism and the glosses of "color blindness.
- The first thing you noticed was the face, a dead-white mask of anguish with black holes for eyes, a curt slash of red for a mouth and cheekbones as high as the sky.
- Subsistence farmers seeking better soil have traditionally relied on slash-and-burn agriculture, which generates greenhouse gases and decimates forests.