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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. as if striking with slashing blows;
- Example: "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"


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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

slashing adj 1: as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon- ridden cadenza"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "slashing": abscission, acid, amputation, biting, burr, butchering, chiseling, chopping, cleavage, corrosive, cross-hatching, cutting, demitint, dichotomy, driving, effective, engravement, engraving, enucleation, etch, etching, excision, fission, forceful, forcible, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, gutsy, half tint, hatching, imperative, impressive, incision, incisive, inscript, inscription, laceration, line, lining, marking, mordant, mutilation, nervous, penetrating, piercing, poignant, powerful, punchy, rending, resection, ripping, scission, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, section, sensational, severance, sinewed, sinewy, slash, slicing, splitting, stipple, stippling, striking, strong, surgery, tearing, telling, tint, tooling, trenchant, type-cutting, vigorous, vital