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6 definitions found for slashing

Websters 1828 Dictionary
Slashing SLASH'ING, ppr. Striking violently and cutting at random.

WordNet (r) 3.0
slashing adj 1: as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon- ridden cadenza"

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003)
slashing I. adjective Date: 1593 1. incisively satiric or critical 2. driving, pelting 3. vivid, brilliantslashingly adverb II. noun Date: 1576 1. the act or process of slashing 2. an insert or layer of contrasting color revealed by a slash (as in a garment) 3. slash 3

Oxford English Reference Dictionary
slashing
adj. vigorously incisive or effective.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Slash Slash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slashing.] [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF. esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E. slate, slice, slit, v. t.] 1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits. 2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King. 3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "slashing": abscission, acid, amputation, biting, burr, butchering, chiseling, chopping, cleavage, corrosive, cross-hatching, cutting, demitint, dichotomy, driving, effective, engravement, engraving, enucleation, etch, etching, excision, fission, forceful, forcible, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, gutsy, half tint, hatching, imperative, impressive, incision, incisive, inscript, inscription, laceration, line, lining, marking, mordant, mutilation, nervous, penetrating, piercing, poignant, powerful, punchy, rending, resection, ripping, scission, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, section, sensational, severance, sinewed, sinewy, slash, slicing, splitting, stipple, stippling, striking, strong, surgery, tearing, telling, tint, tooling, trenchant, type-cutting, vigorous, vital




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