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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a wound made by cutting;
- Example: "he put a bandage over the cut"
[syn: cut, gash, slash, slice]

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;
[syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]

4. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument;
[syn: slash, gash]


VERB (5)

1. cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete;
[syn: slash, cut down]

2. beat severely with a whip or rod;
- Example: "The teacher often flogged the students"
- Example: "The children were severely trounced"
[syn: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]

3. cut open;
- Example: "she slashed her wrists"
[syn: slash, gash]

4. cut drastically;
- Example: "Prices were slashed"

5. move or stir about violently;
- Example: "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
[syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slash \Slash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slashing.] [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF. esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E. slate, slice, slit, v. t.] 1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits. [1913 Webster] 2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King. [1913 Webster] 3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slash \Slash\, v. i. To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. [1913 Webster] Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Slash \Slash\, n. 1. A long cut; a cut made at random. [1913 Webster] 2. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings. [1913 Webster] 3. [Cf. Slashy.] pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster] 4. A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency. We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us. --Henry Van Dyke. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

slash n 1: a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut" [syn: cut, gash, slash, slice] 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 [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix] 4: a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument [syn: slash, gash] v 1: cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete [syn: slash, cut down] 2: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce] 3: cut open; "she slashed her wrists" [syn: slash, gash] 4: cut drastically; "Prices were slashed" 5: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

260 Moby Thesaurus words for "slash": Vandyke, abbreviate, abrade, abrasion, abridge, amputate, assail, attack, ax, band, bar, bark, beat, beat down, bend, bias, bisect, blaze, blemish, blister, bloody, breach, break, breakage, burn, burr, burst, butcher, carve, castigate, catercorner, chafe, cheapen, cheapening, check, chip, chiseling, chop, claw, cleave, cleft, clip, concussion, crack, crackle, craze, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cross-hatching, curtail, cut, cut across, cut away, cut back, cut crosswise, cut down, cut in two, cut off, cut prices, dash, decline, decrease, deflate, deflation, delineation, demitint, depreciate, depreciation, devaluate, devaluation, diagonal, diagonalize, dichotomize, dissever, dive, dotted line, drop, engravement, engraving, etch, etching, excise, excoriate, fall, fall in price, fissure, flagellate, flail, flash burn, flay, flog, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fustigate, gall, gap, gash, gem-engraving, give way, glass-cutting, glyptic, gouge, graving, hachure, hack, hackle, haggle, hairline, half tint, halve, hatching, hew, horsewhip, hurt, incise, incision, indent, injure, injury, inscript, inscription, jag, jew down, jigsaw, knife, knurl, lacerate, laceration, lambaste, lance, lash, lesion, line, lineation, lining, lower, lowering, machicolate, maim, make mincemeat of, mark down, markdown, marking, maul, mill, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, nick, nose dive, nose-dive, notch, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, pare, picot, pierce, pink, plummet, plummeting, plunge, price cut, price fall, price reduction, prune, puncture, reduce, reduction, rend, rent, retrench, rhomboid, rift, rip, rive, roast, run, rupture, sag, savage, saw, scald, scale, scallop, scar, scarify, scathe, scissor, scorch, score, scoring, scotch, scourge, scrape, scratch, scratch comma, scratching, scuff, second-degree burn, separatrix, serrate, sever, shave, skin, skin alive, slant, slant across, slash across, slashing, slice, slit, slump, snip, solidus, sore, splinter, split, sprain, stab, stab wound, stick, stipple, stippling, strain, streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, sunder, tear, third-degree burn, thrash, tint, tooling, tooth, transverse, trauma, traumatize, trim, trounce, type-cutting, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, virgule, whip, whittle, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

slash n. Common name for the slant (?/?, ASCII 0101111) character. See ASCII for other synonyms.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

oblique stroke / slash "/". Common names include: (forward) slash; stroke; ITU-T: slant; oblique stroke. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; INTERCAL: slat. Commonly used as the division operator in programming, and to separate the components in Unix pathnames, and hence also in URLs. Also used to delimit regular expressions in several languages. (1996-09-24)