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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
- transitive verb. To lash; to ply the whip to.
- transitive verb. To crack or snap, as a whip.
- intransitive verb. To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
- noun. A long cut; a cut made at random.
- noun. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
- noun. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
- noun. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
- noun. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- noun. an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- noun. a wound made by cutting
"he put a bandage over the cut"
- verb. cut drastically
"Prices were slashed"
- verb. cut open
"she slashed her wrists"
- verb. cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- verb. beat severely with a whip or rod
"The teacher often flogged the students"
"The children were severely trounced"
- verb. move or stir about violently
"The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
Synonyms
gash, diagonal, separatrix, solidus, stroke, virgule, cut, slice, flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip, convulse, jactitate, thrash, thresh, toss
Common word forms
slashed, slasher, slashes, slashing
Words from these letters
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