'Slit' definitions:
Definition of 'slit'
(from WordNet)
noun
A long narrow opening
noun
noun
noun
A narrow fissure
verb
Make a clean cut through; "slit her throat" [syn: slit, slice]
verb
Cut a slit into; "slit the throat of the victim"
Definition of 'Slit'
From: GCIDE
- Slit \Slit\, obs. 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slit'
From: GCIDE
- Slit \Slit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slit or Slitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Slitting.] [OE. slitten, fr. sliten, AS. st[imac]tan to tear; akin to D. slijten to wear out, G. schleissen to slit, split, OHG. sl[imac]zan to split, tear, wear out, Icel. st[imac]ta to break, tear, wear out, Sw. slita, Dan. slide. Cf. Eclat, Slate, n., Slice.]
- 1. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cut; to sever; to divide. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slit'
From: GCIDE
- Slit \Slit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slit or Slitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Slitting.] [OE. slitten, fr. sliten, AS. st[imac]tan to tear; akin to D. slijten to wear out, G. schleissen to slit, split, OHG. sl[imac]zan to split, tear, wear out, Icel. st[imac]ta to break, tear, wear out, Sw. slita, Dan. slide. Cf. Eclat, Slate, n., Slice.]
- 1. To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cut; to sever; to divide. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- And slits the thin-spun life. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slit'
From: GCIDE
- Slit \Slit\, n. [AS. slite.] A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear. [1913 Webster]
- Gill slit. (Anat.) See Gill opening, under Gill. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'slit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrade,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- aggravated,
- amputate,
- aperture,
- arroyo,
- ax,
- bark,
- bezel,
- bisect,
- blemish,
- bloody,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- breakage,
- broach,
- broken,
- burn,
- burned,
- burst,
- busted,
- butcher,
- canal,
- canaliculate,
- canaliculated,
- canalize,
- canyon,
- carve,
- cavity,
- chafe,
- chamfer,
- chamfered,
- channel,
- channeled,
- chap,
- chase,
- chasm,
- check,
- checked,
- chimney,
- chink,
- chinky,
- chip,
- chipped,
- chisel,
- chop,
- claw,
- cleave,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- cloven,
- col,
- corduroy,
- corduroyed,
- corrugate,
- corrugated,
- corrugation,
- costate,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cracked,
- cranny,
- craze,
- crazed,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crimp,
- crimped,
- cut,
- cut apart,
- cut away,
- cut in two,
- cut off,
- cut open,
- cwm,
- dado,
- dadoed,
- damaged,
- defile,
- dehiscent,
- dell,
- deteriorated,
- dichotomize,
- dike,
- dispart,
- dissever,
- ditch,
- divaricate,
- divide,
- donga,
- draw,
- embittered,
- engrave,
- engraved,
- engraving,
- exacerbated,
- excavation,
- excise,
- fault,
- fissure,
- fissured,
- fissury,
- flaw,
- flume,
- flute,
- fluted,
- fluting,
- fly open,
- fracture,
- fray,
- frazzle,
- fret,
- furrow,
- furrowed,
- gall,
- gap,
- gape,
- gaping,
- gappy,
- gash,
- gashed,
- goffer,
- goffered,
- gorge,
- gouge,
- gouged,
- groove,
- grooved,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- hack,
- halve,
- harmed,
- hew,
- hole,
- hurt,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- in bits,
- in pieces,
- in shards,
- in shreds,
- incise,
- incised,
- incision,
- injure,
- injured,
- irritated,
- jigsaw,
- joint,
- kloof,
- knife,
- lacerate,
- lacerated,
- lance,
- lay open,
- leak,
- maim,
- make mincemeat of,
- mangled,
- maul,
- microgroove,
- moat,
- mutilate,
- mutilated,
- notch,
- nullah,
- ope,
- open,
- open up,
- opening,
- pare,
- part,
- pass,
- passage,
- pierce,
- pleat,
- pleated,
- plow,
- prune,
- puncture,
- quartered,
- rabbet,
- rabbeted,
- ragged,
- ravine,
- rend,
- rent,
- ribbed,
- rifle,
- rifled,
- rifling,
- rift,
- rime,
- rimose,
- rimulose,
- rip,
- rive,
- riven,
- ruck,
- run,
- rupture,
- ruptured,
- rut,
- rutted,
- rutty,
- savage,
- saw,
- scald,
- scalded,
- scale,
- scissor,
- scissure,
- scorch,
- scorched,
- score,
- scored,
- scotch,
- scrape,
- scratch,
- scratched,
- scuff,
- seam,
- separate,
- sever,
- severed,
- shattered,
- shredded,
- skin,
- slash,
- slashed,
- slice,
- slot,
- smashed,
- snip,
- splinter,
- splintered,
- split,
- sprain,
- spread,
- spread out,
- spring open,
- sprung,
- stab,
- stick,
- strain,
- streak,
- stria,
- striate,
- striated,
- striation,
- sulcate,
- sulcated,
- sulcation,
- sulcus,
- sunder,
- swing open,
- tap,
- tattered,
- tear,
- tear open,
- the worse for,
- throw open,
- torn,
- traumatize,
- trench,
- trough,
- troughed,
- valley,
- void,
- wadi,
- weakened,
- well-worn groove,
- whittle,
- worse,
- worse off,
- worsened,
- wound,
- wrench,
- wrinkle,
- wrinkled