Meaning

14 senses
  1. To cut or attempt to cut

    To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.

    They slashed at him with their swords, but only managed to nick one of his fingers.

    She hacked and slashed her way across the jungle.

    aufschlitzen

    полосова́тьpolosovátʹ, руби́тьrubítʹ, рассека́тьrassekátʹ

  2. To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.

  3. To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.

  4. (figuratively)To reduce sharply.

    All prices slashed!

    Competition forced them to slash prices.

  5. To create slashes in a garment.

  6. (figuratively)To criticize cuttingly.

  7. To strike violently and randomly, particularly

  8. To strike violently and randomly

    To swing wildly at the ball.

  9. To move quickly and violently.

    move or stir about violently

  10. To crack a whip with a slashing motion.

  11. (Canada, US)To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.

    The province's traditional slash-and-burn agriculture was only sustainable with a much smaller population.

  12. (intransitive, slang)To write slash fiction.

Examples

46 sentences
  1. Did you really think I was the one who slashed your tires?

    Ти й насправді думав, що це я порізав тобі шини? — deniko

    deDachtest du wirklich, daß ich es war, der dir die Reifen aufgeschlitzt hat? — Waldelfe

  2. Did you really think that I was the one who slashed your tires?

    Ти й насправді думав, що це я порізав тобі шини? — deniko

    deDachtest du wirklich, daß ich es war, der dir die Reifen aufgeschlitzt hat? — Waldelfe

  3. Tom slashed his wrists.

    Том порізав собі зап'ястя. — deniko

    ruТом порезал себе запястья. — odexed

  4. Tom slashed Mary's throat.

    ruТом перерезал Мэри горло. — sharptoothed

  5. Did you slash Tom's tires?

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to make a broad cut with an edged weapon:
slang: an act of urination:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make a broad cut with an edged weapon:

Origin

Late Middle English, originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Perhaps of imitative origin

Late Middle English, originally a verb of uncertain etymology. Perhaps of imitative origin, or possibly from Old French esclachier (“to break in pieces”), a variant of esclater, which is likely a Germanic borrowing, from Frankish *slaitan (“to slit, tear”).

Uncertain. Compare Scots slash (“large splash”), possibly from Old French esclache. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.

Uncertain. Compare British dialectal slashy (“wet and dirty, miry”) and Scots slash (“act of walking forcefully through water or mud”) and slatch (“wet and muddy place, mire”). Perhaps related to Swedish slask (“slush”).

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Forms

slashes, slashing, slashed, slashed
Base formslash · to slash
3rd person singularslashes
Present participleslashing
Past simpleslashed
Past participleslashed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyslash
he, she, itslashes

Past simpleLesson

all personsslashed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave slashed
he, she, ithas slashed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill slash

Synonyms

18 synonyms
to strike a whip:crackB2
to strike with a whip:lashscourgethrash
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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