Slashing

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slash \Slash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Slashing}.] [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF.
     esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E.
     slate, slice, slit, v. t.]
     1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long
        slits.


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     2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King.
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     3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slashing
       adj : as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing
             demon-ridden cadenza"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "slashing":
     abscission, acid, amputation, biting, burr, butchering, chiseling,
     chopping, cleavage, corrosive, cross-hatching, cutting, demitint,
     dichotomy, driving, effective, engravement, engraving, enucleation,
     etch, etching, excision, fission, forceful, forcible,
     gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, gutsy, half tint,
     hatching, imperative, impressive, incision, incisive, inscript,
     inscription, laceration, line, lining, marking, mordant,
     mutilation, nervous, penetrating, piercing, poignant, powerful,
     punchy, rending, resection, ripping, scission, score, scoring,
     scratch, scratching, section, sensational, severance, sinewed,
     sinewy, slash, slicing, splitting, stipple, stippling, striking,
     strong, surgery, tearing, telling, tint, tooling, trenchant,
     type-cutting, vigorous, vital