slash

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 5 in 5 verses (in OT : 5 in 5 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

slash, v. t. [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF. esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E. slate, slice, slit, v. t.].

•  To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.  [1913 Webster]
•  To lash; to ply the whip to.  King.  [1913 Webster]
•  To crack or snap, as a whip.  Dr. H. More.  [1913 Webster]

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."  [1913 Webster]

slash, n. 

•  A long cut; a cut made at random.  [1913 Webster]
•  A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.  [1913 Webster]
•  Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.  Bartlett.  [1913 Webster]
•  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."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

slash, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. make a sweeping or random cut or cuts with a knife, sword, whip, etc.
2 tr. make such a cut or cuts at.
3 tr. make a long narrow gash or gashes in.
4 tr. reduce (prices etc.) drastically.
5 tr. censure vigorously.
6 tr. make (one's way) by slashing.
7 tr. a lash (a person etc.) with a whip. b crack (a whip).
--n.
1 a a slashing cut or stroke. b a wound or slit made by this.
2 an oblique stroke; a solidus.
3 Brit. sl. an act of urinating.
4 US debris resulting from the felling or destruction of trees.

Idiom

slash-and-burn (of cultivation) in which vegetation is cut down, allowed to dry, and then burned off before seeds are planted.

Derivative

slasher n.

Etymology

ME perh. f. OF esclachier break in pieces

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

slash

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.