SLASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slash mean? 

• SLASH (noun)
  The noun SLASH has 4 senses:

1. a wound made by cutting

2. an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

3. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

4. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

  Familiarity information: SLASH used as a noun is uncommon.

• SLASH (verb)
  The verb SLASH has 5 senses:

1. cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

2. beat severely with a whip or rod

3. cut open

4. cut drastically

5. move or stir about violently

  Familiarity information: SLASH used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wound made by cutting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cut; gash; slash; slice

Context example:

he put a bandage over the cut

Hypernyms ("slash" is a kind of...):

lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))

Derivation:

slash (cut open)

slash (cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("slash" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

diagonal; separatrix; slash; solidus; stroke; virgule

Hypernyms ("slash" is a kind of...):

punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gash; slash

Hypernyms ("slash" is a kind of...):

cut; cutting (the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge)

Derivation:

slash (cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete)

• SLASH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they slash    ... he / she / it slashes   
Past simple: slashed   
Past participle: slashed   
-ing form: slashing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cut down; slash

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They slash the trees

Derivation:

slash (a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument)

slash (a wound made by cutting)

slasher (someone who slashes another person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Beat severely with a whip or rod

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

flog; lash; lather; slash; strap; trounce; welt; whip

Context example:

The children were severely trounced

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

beat; beat up; work over (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slash"):

flagellate; scourge (whip)

leather (whip with a leather strap)

horsewhip (whip with a whip intended for horses)

switch (flog with or as if with a flexible rod)

cowhide (flog with a cowhide)

cat (beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails)

birch (whip with a birch twig)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to slash the prisoners

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cut open

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

gash; slash

Context example:

she slashed her wrists

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They will slash the duet

Derivation:

slash (a wound made by cutting)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cut drastically

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Prices were slashed

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

bring down; cut; cut back; cut down; reduce; trim; trim back; trim down (cut down on; make a reduction in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Move or stir about violently

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

convulse; jactitate; slash; thrash; thrash about; thresh; thresh about; toss

Context example:

The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed

Hypernyms (to "slash" is one way to...):

agitate; shake (move or cause to move back and forth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "slash"):

whip (thrash about flexibly in the manner of a whiplash)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

Living near a park may slash your risk of an early death, according to the biggest ever review of the evidence.

(People Living Near Parks in Cities Less Likely to Face Early Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

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

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Time and time again he tried for the snow-white throat, where life bubbled near to the surface, and each time and every time Spitz slashed him and got away.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A jacket with hanging sleeves, slashed with velvet at the neck and wrists, showed that he was a man of some consideration, an under-officer, or file-leader of his company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is the largest annual deforestation figure since 2008, equivalent to 128 football fields of forest being slashed every hour according to IPAM.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

The Lactobacillus family has been shown to slash belly fat as well as reduce the number of calories taken from food.

(Supplements of 'Good Bacteria' Can Enhance Weight Loss in Dieters, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

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)

These boots, an old foil, and a slashed doublet once used by an artist for some picture, were Jo's chief treasures and appeared on all occasions.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The shears were gone altogether. The guys had been slashed right and left. The throat-halyards which I had rigged were cut across through every part. And he knew I could not splice.

(The Sea-Wolf, 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)