'Slash' definitions:

Definition of 'slash'

From: WordNet
noun
A wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut" [syn: cut, gash, slash, slice]
noun
An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
noun
A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]
noun
A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument [syn: slash, gash]
verb
Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete [syn: slash, cut down]
verb
Beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]
verb
Cut open; "she slashed her wrists" [syn: slash, gash]
verb
Cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
verb
Move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate]

Definition of 'Slash'

From: GCIDE
  • Slash \Slash\, v. i. To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. [1913 Webster]
  • Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Slash'

From: GCIDE
  • Slash \Slash\, n.
  • 1. A long cut; a cut made at random. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. [Cf. Slashy.] pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, U.S.] --Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire, or other destructive agency.
  • We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us. --Henry Van Dyke. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Definition of 'Slash'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'slash'

From: Moby Thesaurus