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slash
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[ verb ] cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
Synonyms Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)In the fifth , Wally_Post slashed a 2 - run homer off Bud_Daley , but by that time the score was 11 - 5 and it really did n't matter . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)There was a_little blood on the hem of her dress , for the assassin had slashed Miss_Harris 's companion , Major_Rathbone , with a knife . (Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)She brought the quirt down , slashing it across his cheek , and he tried to step back . Related terms |
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[ verb ] cut open
Synonyms Examples "she slashed her wrists" Used in print (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Off in the distance a searchlight flashed on , its beam slashing the sky . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)He saw only dimly moving figures , but when he slashed them they yelled and fled . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)It slashed the sloping manure scented lawns with concrete steps which climbed upward to white wooden porches . Related terms |
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[ verb ] beat severely with a whip or rod
Examples "The teacher often flogged the students" "The children were severely trounced" Used in print (Edwin Booth, Outlaw Town....)He drew_back his arm to slash the gunbarrel across Jess 's face , but did n't finish the motion . |
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[ verb ] cut drastically
Examples "Prices were slashed" Used in print (The Wall Street Journal...)Paradoxically , the sales rise is_due in large measure to Government efforts to slash farm output . (U.S. News and World Report,...)Within a year , without reducing wages , Underwood 's production_costs were cut one third , prices were slashed . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move or stir about violently
Synonyms toss thresh thrash_about thrash convulse thresh_about jactitate Examples "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
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[ verb ] beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all
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[ noun ] an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
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