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slash
1[ slash ]
verb (used with object)
- to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.
- to lash; whip.
- to cut, reduce, or alter:
The editors slashed the story to half its length.
Synonyms: ,
- to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
- to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.
verb (used without object)
- to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.
- to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.
noun
- a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
- a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
- a curtailment, reduction, or alteration:
a drastic slash of prices.
- a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
- Compare forward slash ( def ), backslash ( def ).
- 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.
- 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.
鈥淪weetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.鈥 (John Donne)
- (in forest land)
- an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.
- the debris itself.
- Slang. slash fiction ( def ).
slash
2[ slash ]
noun
- Often slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.
slash
/ 蝉濒忙蕛 /
verb
- to cut or lay about (a person or thing) with sharp sweeping strokes, as with a sword, knife, etc
- to lash with a whip
- to make large gashes in
to slash tyres
- to reduce (prices, etc) drastically
- to criticize harshly
- to slit (the outer fabric of a garment) so that the lining material is revealed
- to clear (scrub or undergrowth) by cutting
noun
- a sharp, sweeping stroke, as with a sword or whip
- a cut or rent made by such a stroke
- a decorative slit in a garment revealing the lining material
- littered wood chips and broken branches that remain after trees have been cut down
- an area so littered
- 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
- slang.the act of urinating (esp in the phrase have a slash )
- a genre of erotic fiction written by women, to appeal to women
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 耻苍路蝉濒补蝉丑别诲顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Origin of slash2
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of slash1
Example Sentences
Block is among major San Francisco Bay Area tech companies slashing their payrolls this year.
Carr has advocated for Congress to slash funding for public radio and TV stations.
Since that appearance, Musk has dispatched his operatives across the federal government, pushing to access sensitive government databases and identify programmes to slash.
Several ministries, including education, had their budgets slashed by half.
With the Trump administration slashing budgets and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status for nonprofits, some Southern California social justice organizations have gone into a defensive crouch, hoping to wait out the passing storm.
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