Dictionary Entry
slash
slash is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
- 2transitive verb
To lash; to ply the whip to.
- 3transitive verb
To crack or snap, as a whip.
- 4intransitive verb
To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
- 5noun
A long cut; a cut made at random.
- 6noun
A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
- 7noun
Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
- 8noun
a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
Synonyms
- 9noun
a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- 10noun
an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- 11noun
a wound made by cutting
"he put a bandage over the cut"
- 12verb
cut drastically
"Prices were slashed"
- 13verb
cut open
"she slashed her wrists"
Synonyms
- 14verb
cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- 15verb
beat severely with a whip or rod
"The teacher often flogged the students"
"The children were severely trounced"
- 16verb
move or stir about violently
"The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
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