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Another word for slash

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Verb

  1. To penetrate with a sharp edge

    See also:

    help

    enter

  2. To criticize harshly and devastatingly

    Idioms:
    See also:

    praise

  3. To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising

    See also:

    increase

Noun

  1. The result of cutting

    See also:

    help

    enter

  2. An incision, a notch, or a slight cut made with or as if with a knife

    See also:

    marks

  3. The act or process of decreasing

    See also:

    increase

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for slash

Verb
  1. See also:

    cut

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • She was too … nice to slash a man's throat.

  • I'll stab and slash and chop off their heads!

  • She stepped away to slash at a guardsman then tugged the necklace on quickly.

  • Both breathed hard, and she noticed a red slash across Darian's face.

  • The slash in his arm was deep, and maroon blood bubbled into the snow.

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