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SLASH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Synonyms:

gash; slash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("slash" is a kind of...):

cut; cutting (the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge)

Derivation:

slash (cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

Synonyms:

diagonal; separatrix; slash; solidus; stroke; virgule

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("slash" is a kind of...):

punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("slash" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A wound made by cutting

Example:

he put a bandage over the cut

Synonyms:

cut; gash; slash; slice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("slash" is a kind of...):

lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))

Derivation:

slash (cut open)

slash (cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut drastically

Example:

Prices were slashed

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

bring down; cut; cut back; cut down; reduce; trim; trim back; trim down (cut down on; make a reduction in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut open

Example:

she slashed her wrists

Synonyms:

gash; slash

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They will slash the duet

Derivation:

slash (a wound made by cutting)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

Synonyms:

cut down; slash

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They slash the trees

Derivation:

slash (a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument)

slash (a wound made by cutting)

slasher (someone who slashes another person)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Beat severely with a whip or rod

Example:

The children were severely trounced

Synonyms:

flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slash"):

flagellate; scourge (whip)

leather (whip with a leather strap)

horsewhip (whip with a whip intended for horses)

switch (flog with or as if with a flexible rod)

cowhide (flog with a cowhide)

cat (beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails)

birch (whip with a birch twig)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to slash the prisoners

Sense 5

Meaning:

Move or stir about violently

Example:

The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Synonyms:

convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slash"):

whip (thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

Right in front, the doctor was pursuing his assailant down the hill, and just as my eyes fell upon him, beat down his guard and sent him sprawling on his back with a great slash across the face.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I measured the tail of the dead rat, and found it to be two yards long, wanting an inch; but it went against my stomach to drag the carcass off the bed, where it lay still bleeding; I observed it had yet some life, but with a strong slash across the neck, I thoroughly despatched it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had covered the distance and gone in more like a cat than a dog; and with the same cat-like swiftness he had slashed with his fangs and leaped clear.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It was no task for him to learn to fight with cut and slash and the quick wolf snap.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Three pirates had fallen before him, and he had wounded Spade-beard in the neck, when the Norman giant sprang at him from the side with a slashing blow from his deadly mace.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leach laughed and hurled more of his Telegraph Hill Billingsgate, and before either he or I knew what had happened, his right arm had been ripped open from elbow to wrist by a quick slash of the knife.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were slashed open and bleeding before they knew what had happened, were whipped almost before they had begun to fight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Three others tried it in sharp succession; and one after the other they drew back, streaming blood from slashed throats or shoulders.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

As he spoke, a French squire and the Bohemian knight came rushing down the steps, the latter bleeding from a slash across his forehead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)