Definitions for slashing

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slashing slash·ing

Spelling: [slash-ing]

IPA: /ˈslæʃ ɪŋ/

Slashing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in slashing (aghilnss).

Definitions for slashing

noun

1. a slash.
2. a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.
3. a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.
4. a curtailment, reduction, or alteration:
5. a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.
6. a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur; a virgule: a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule: Compare forward slash, backslash.
7. an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire. the debris itself.
8. Slang. slash fiction.

adjective

1. sweeping; cutting.
2. violent; severe:
3. dashing; impetuous.
4. vivid; flashing; brilliant.
5. Informal. very large or fine; splendid:

verb (used with object)

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:
4. to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.
5. to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner.

verb (used without object)

1. to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.
2. to make a sweeping, cutting stroke.

Origin of slashing

First recorded in 1590-1600; slash¹ + -ing¹, -ing²

Examples for slashing

“You and Mattawa are about through with that slashing contract,” he said.

In the acknowledgments, Zaicklas confesses a tendency to plant too many clues, and she thanks her editor for slashing them.

And then makes a slashing gesture across his throat and laughs.

An instant later he was locked in the clutch of the yelling, slashing Apache.

Forty-nine-year-old Elena brings a trembling hand to the bridge of her nose and makes a slashing movement across it.

Sail had been lowered by slashing away the ropes that held the yards.

In the forests the loggers were tearing and slashing into all but the remnant of the 96 timber.

Erik Prince is not the kind of man one expects to make the case for slashing U.S. intelligence and military budgets.

When she held onto her post, Perry followed through, slashing $7.5 million of funding over two years.

A thrust, a slashing blow, and the Drilgo was weltering in his life-blood.