SLASHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slashing mean? 

• SLASHING (adjective)
  The adjective SLASHING has 1 sense:

1. as if striking with slashing blows

  Familiarity information: SLASHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLASHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As if striking with slashing blows

Context example:

his slashing demon-ridden cadenza

Similar:

dynamic; dynamical (characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality)

 Context examples 

A separate World Bank study has said slashing pollution must be a priority, saying that solving this problem would lead to solutions to other crises, including global warming and malnutrition.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

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)

Nor was she above slashing his shoulder sharply on occasion.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing Buck down the shoulder and leaping clear.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I heard that Mr. Creakle had not preferred his claim to being a Tartar without reason; that he was the sternest and most severe of masters; that he laid about him, right and left, every day of his life, charging in among the boys like a trooper, and slashing away, unmercifully.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

White Fang leaped clear, and, as the man struggled to rise, was in again with the slashing fangs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But suddenly, with remarkable swiftness, Lip-lip leaped in, delivering a slashing snap, and leaped away again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But White Fang was here, there, and everywhere, always evading and eluding, and always leaping in and slashing with his fangs and leaping out again in time to escape punishment.

(White Fang, by Jack London)