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/slash/, v.t.1. to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.2. to lash; whip.3. to cut, reduce, or alter: The editors slashed the story to half its length.4. to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.5. to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.v.i.6. to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.7. to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.n.8. a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.9. a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.10. a curtailment, reduction, or alteration: a drastic slash of prices.11. a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.12. virgule.13. (in forest land)a. an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.b. the debris itself.[1350-1400; ME slaschen < ?]Syn. 3. abridge, abbreviate.slash2/slash/, n.Often, slashes. a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees.[1645-55, Amer.; orig. uncert.]
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Universalium. 2010.
