slash
1. a wound made by cutting
- he put a bandage over the cut
• Syn:
cut, gash, slice
• Derivationally related forms:
slice (for: slice), gash (for: gash)
• Hypernyms:
wound, lesion
2. an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
• Hypernyms:
land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
3. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
• Syn:
solidus, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix
• Hypernyms:
punctuation, punctuation mark
4. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
• Syn:
gash
• Derivationally related forms:
gash (for: gash)
• Hypernyms:
cut, cutting
1. cut with sweeping strokes;
as with an ax or machete (Freq. 7)
• Syn:
cut down
• Derivationally related forms:
slasher
• Hypernyms:
cut
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- They slash the trees
2. beat severely with a whip or rod (Freq. 3)
- The teacher often flogged the students
- The children were severely trounced
• Syn:
flog, welt, whip, lather, lash,
strap, trounce
• Derivationally related forms:
trouncing (for: trounce), strap (for: strap), lash (for: lash), whip (for: whip), whipper (for: whip), whipping (for: whip), welt (for: welt), flogging (for: flog)
• Hypernyms:
beat, beat up, work over
• Hyponyms:
flagellate, scourge, leather, horsewhip, switch,
cowhide, cat, birch
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- They want to slash the prisoners
3. cut open (Freq. 3)
- she slashed her wrists
• Syn:
gash
• Derivationally related forms:
gash (for: gash)
• Hypernyms:
cut
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They will slash the duet
4. cut drastically (Freq. 2)
- Prices were slashed
• Hypernyms:
reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down,
trim back, cut, bring down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
5. move or stir about violently
- The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed
• Syn:
convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about,
toss, jactitate
• Derivationally related forms:
jactitation (for: jactitate), toss (for: toss), thrash (for: thrash)
• Hypernyms:
shake, agitate
• Hyponyms:
whip
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
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