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单词 slash
释义 slash
I. \ˈslash, -aa(ə)-, -ai-\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
Etymology: Middle English slaschen, probably from Middle French eslachier to break
transitive verb
1. : to cut with sweeping strokes that are typically rapid and forceful or savage with or as if with a blade producing long cuts or slits and usually without careful aim
 < when our tools are blasted and our canvases slashed — E.M.Forster >
 < the dog managed to slash both his opponents severely — C.G.D.Roberts >
2. : to hit with a stroke like that used in slashing: as
 a. : lash, whip
  < slash him with bridle reins and dog whips — Sir Walter Scott >
 b. : to strike swiftly and forcibly : drive
  < slashed the ball across the court >
3. : to wield with movements like those used in slashing
 < slashing his bright sword somewhat aimlessly about — Evangeline Davis >
especially : crack
 < slashing his whip so near the horse that the creature was frightened — Harriet B. Stowe >
4.
 a. : to reduce to slash
  < the growth has been slashed by … scrub-cutting gangs — K.B.Cumberland >
 b. : to clear (land) by slashing down trees and bushes
  < slashed fifty acres >
5.
 a. : to advance (a thing) by or as if by slashing the obstacles in the way
  < slashed his way through the Oregon wilderness — American Guide Series: Oregon >
 b. : to move (a thing) swiftly and forcefully
  < slashed the curtain across the light — Morley Callaghan >
6.
 a. : to cut slits in (as a garment) so as to insert or expose an underlying contrasting color
  < slashed cuff with inset bands of contrast — Women's Wear Daily >
 b. : to mark as if by slashing in such a manner : streak
  < brown iris … slashed with yellow — Willa Cather >
  < this gloom slashed by a few bands of bright light — John Cheever >
  < great yellow flashes slash the night — Guthrie Wilson >
7. : to criticize cuttingly and sweepingly : censure unsparingly
 < slashed the administration for its policies >
8.
 a. : to reduce sharply (as in amount or extent) : cut
  < slash the cost of fashion on every item in the store — advt >
  < would personally like to see the tax on corporations not just cut, but slashedWall Street Journal >
  < incidence of major crime in that area was slashed by almost 50 percent — George Barrett >
 b. : to reduce the length of : shorten
  < editing would have slashed this volume to half its size — Wayne Andrews >
 c. : to delete usually by crossing out : expunge
  < slashed many pages out of the typescript — F.A.Swinnerton >
 d. : remove by or as if by cutting : excise
  < slash twenty minutes out of the first act — Clemence Dane >
9. : to size (yarn) with a slasher
intransitive verb
1. : to cut recklessly or savagely with or as if with a sword, knife, or razor
 < these lads hacked and slashed with the same tremendous spirit — Mark Twain >
2. : to fall, move, or advance with a sweeping cutting motion like that used in slashing : pelt, dash, drive
 < a pouring night late in March, and the rain slashed against the windows — Laura Krey >
 < the winds slash before them — Marjory S. Douglas >
 < the rockets slash groundward — advt >
3.
 a. : to use unnecessary roughness in striking with one's stick at an opponent's stick in lacrosse
 b. : to use unnecessary force when swinging the stick in playing the puck in ice hockey
Synonyms: see cut

- slash at
II. noun
(-es)
1.
 a. : a long cut made by slashing : gash
 b. : a stroke or blow delivered with a slashing motion
  < two revengeful slashes — H.G.Wells >
2. : an ornamental slit especially for showing a lining, underlayer, or insertion in a contrasting color
 < his paned hose were of velvet lined with purple silk, which garniture appeared at the slashes — Sir Walter Scott >
 < slashes in the glaze to show the beige pottery beneath — New Yorker >
3. : a line or band of vivid or flashing color or light : streak
 < peeping in yellow slashes through the trees — C.E.W.Bean >
 < slashes of sunlight — Sylvia T. Warner >
4.
 a. : an open tract in a forest strewn with debris (as logs, chunks of wood, bark, branches) from logging, wind, or fire
 b. : the debris in such a tract
5. also slash mark : diagonal 4
6. : a long straight cut or mark that is made in a garment or pattern and that usually indicates or serves as the base for an opening or placket
7. : reduction, cut
 < 5 to 10 percent price slash in new cars — Christian Science Monitor >
 < substantial slashes in this year's defense outlays — Felix Belair >
III. noun
(-es)
Etymology: probably alteration (influenced by slush) (I) of plash (I)
: a low swampy area often overgrown with bushes : marsh
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