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31slash — slash1 [slæʃ] v [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Probably from Old French eslachier to break ] 1.) [I,T always + adverb/preposition] to cut or try to cut something violently with a knife, sword etc ▪ Someone had slashed the tires. slash at/through ▪ The …
32slash — slash1 [ slæʃ ] verb transitive * 1. ) to cut something in a violent way: The tires on the car had been slashed. His attacker slashed him across the face with a knife. 2. ) MAINLY JOURNALISM to reduce something by a large amount: Congress voted… …
33slash — {{11}}slash (n.) a cutting stroke with a weapon, 1570s, from SLASH (Cf. slash) (v.); sense of slit in a garment is from 1610s; that of open tract in a forest is first attested 1825, Amer.Eng. As a punctuation mark in writing or printing, it is… …
34slash — 1 verb 1 (intransitive always + adv/prep, transitive) to violently cut or try to cut something with a knife, sword etc: Most of the seats on the train had been slashed by vandals. (+ at/through): Alan was slashing at the snake with a huge stick.… …
35slash — /slæʃ / (say slash) verb (t) 1. to cut with a violent sweep or by striking violently and at random. 2. to lash. 3. to cut, reduce, or alter, especially drastically. 4. to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric. 5. to cut down… …
36slash at — phrasal 1. : to attack swiftly and forcefully roar off runways … at minute intervals to slash at the communications of the … army Current History 2. : to censure unsparingly : excoriate when you slash at my things Dorothy C. Fisher * * * slash at …
37slash — v. (D; intr.) to slash at (to slash at smb. with a knife) * * * [slæʃ] (D; intr.) to slash at (to slash at smb. with a knife) …
38slash — slash1 /slash/, v.t. 1. to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword. 2. to lash; whip. 3. to cut, reduce, or alter: The editors slashed the story to half its length. 4. to make slits in… …
39slash — 1. noun /slæʃ/ a) The symbol, /. Also known as a forward slash, particularly in computer programming and web design. Excuse me, I need to take a slash b) A swift cut with a blade, particularly with fighting weapons as a sword, saber, knife etc.… …
40slash — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun Slash is used before these nouns: ↑mark, ↑wound {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb 1 cut ADVERB ▪ wildly PREPOSITION ▪ at, through …
