slash in English
- slash⇄noun 1. a sweeping, slashing stroke.
Ex. the slash of a sword; ... the slash of the rain (Hamlin Garland); rough slashes of sarcasm (Thomas Carlyle).
2. a cut or wound made by such a stroke; gash.
Ex. The sword made a slash across his - slash⇄slash (1), verb, noun.
- slash⇄slash (2), noun.
wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees. - slash⇄v.i. 1. to make a sweeping stroke or strokes.
Ex. The hunter wounded the bear as he slashed at it with his knife. We ... came slashing down with the mad current into the narrow passage between the dykes (Mark Twain).
2. (Figurative.) to crit - slash⇄v.t. 1. to cut with a sweeping stroke of a sword, knife, ax, or whip; gash.
Ex. to slash a tree, to slash a person's face. He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife.
2. to cut or slit (a garment) to let a different cloth or color show