slashed
s lasht
- 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
- s patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes
brown iris...slashed with yellow"- Willa Cather - s having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric
a slashed doublet
slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining - s (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
the slashed prices attracted buyers
- He has slashed some top managers' bloated salaries, preferring performance pay.
- When Ronald Reagan slashed taxes on capital gains and high earners in the early 1980s, inflation was pushing the middle class into top tax brackets, financial markets had been .
- Between August 7 and November 10 of that year, five women were killed in the Whitechapel district of Londons East End, their throats slashed and their bodies mutilated in a way .