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harsh
Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
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  1. Unpleasant, uncomfortable, or hostile to survival:
  2. Unpleasantly coarse and rough to the touch:
  3. Severe, cruel, or exacting:
brutal
Like a brute; cruel and unfeeling; savage, violent, ruthless, etc.
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  1. Like a brute; cruel and unfeeling; savage, violent, ruthless, etc.
  2. Plain and direct, although distressing in effect
  3. Disagreeably precise or penetrating:
vicious
Disposed to violent or destructive behavior:
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  1. Disposed to violent or destructive behavior:
  2. Extremely violent or injurious; cruel:
  3. Severe, powerful, or intense; fierce:
acerbic
Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
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  1. Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:
  2. Sharp, bitter, or harsh in temper, language, etc.
  3. Sour or bitter tasting; acid.
acid
Any of a class of compounds that form hydrogen ions when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with bases and certain metals to form salts. Acids turn blue litmus paper red and have a pH of less than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a sour taste.
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  1. Any of a class of compounds that form hydrogen ions when dissolved in water, and whose aqueous solutions react with bases and certain metals to form salts. Acids turn blue litmus paper red and have a pH of less than 7. Their aqueous solutions have a sour taste.
  2. (Geology) Containing a large proportion of silica:
  3. Having the characteristics of an acid.
acidic
(Chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
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  1. (Chemistry) Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
  2. Tending to form an acid.
  3. Acid
acrid
Caustic in language or tone:
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  1. Caustic in language or tone:
  2. Bitter or sarcastic in speech, etc.
  3. Sharp, bitter, stinging, or irritating to the taste or smell
astringent
(Medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
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  1. (Medicine) Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.
  2. A substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues, resulting in decreased flow of blood or other secretions.
  3. Sharp, caustic, severe.
biting
Cutting; sharp
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  1. Cutting; sharp
  2. Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings; caustic:
  3. Sarcastic; caustic
caustic
Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
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  1. Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action.
  2. Given to making caustic remarks:
  3. Cutting or sarcastic in utterance; biting
corrosive
Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
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  1. Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
  2. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
  3. Bitingly sarcastic; cutting; acid
cutting
Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
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  1. Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others:
  2. Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing:
  3. Sharply penetrating; piercing:
mordacious
Given to biting; biting.
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  1. Given to biting; biting.
  2. Biting, sharp, acrid, or caustic
mordant
Acting as a mordant
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  1. Acting as a mordant
  2. Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
  3. Biting, cutting, caustic, or sarcastic
pungent
Pointed:
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  1. Pointed:
  2. Producing a sharp sensation of taste or smell; acrid
  3. Penetrating, biting, or caustic:
scathing
Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical:
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  1. Bitterly denunciatory; harshly critical:
  2. Harmful or painful; injurious.
  3. Searing; withering; harsh or caustic
sharp
Briskly or keenly cold and cutting:
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  1. Briskly or keenly cold and cutting:
  2. Having clear form and detail:
  3. Strongly affecting the senses of smell and taste:
stinging
Having the capacity to sting.
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  1. Having the capacity to sting.
trenchant
Forceful and clear; penetrating:
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  1. Forceful and clear; penetrating:
  2. (Archaic) Cutting; sharp
  3. Caustic; cutting:
truculent
Fierce; cruel; savage; ferocious
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  1. Fierce; cruel; savage; ferocious
  2. Disposed to violence; ferocious or cruel.
  3. Disposed or eager to fight or engage in hostile opposition; belligerent.
vitriolic
(Chemistry): Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste.
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  1. (Chemistry): Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste.
  2. Extremely biting or caustic; sharp and bitter
  3. Bitterly scathing; caustic: vitriolic criticism
Find another word for slashing. In this page you can discover 24 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for slashing, like: harsh, brutal, vicious, cruel, acerbic, acid, acidic, acrid, astringent, biting and caustic.

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  • He whirled, slashing down someone with a sword.

  • Brady smashed his elbow into the man's face and whipped him around, slashing his neck with the knife.

  • They had striking, slashing and piercing weapons held in the hand, fastened to a shaft or thong, hurled from the hand, from a sling, from an atlatl or throwing-stick, or shot from a bow.

  • But Italian taste was all for bold, highly-coloured; slashing statements, that any one could understand; what it wanted was a method that should be at once intel lectually impressive, and free from the usual clouds that beset the scholar's path.

  • In 1851 he published anonymously Babylon and Jerusalem, a slashing criticism of the views of the Countess von Hahn-Hahn.

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