Synonyms for slash
slæʃslash

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1. cut, gash, slash, slicenoun

   a wound made by cutting

   "he put a bandage over the cut"

   Synonyms:
   gash, solidus, stroke, cold shoulder, cutting, fade, cut, swing, deletion, cutting off, virgule, excision, diagonal, piece, baseball swing, track, undercut, cut of meat, slicing, snub, separatrix, slice, stinger

2. slashnoun

   an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)

   Synonyms:
   gash, slice, virgule, solidus, separatrix, diagonal, cut, stroke

3. solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrixnoun

   a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

   Synonyms:
   cam stroke, gash, throw, stroking, stroke, bezant, accident, fortuity, bezzant, cut, bias, solidus, virgule, diagonal, chance event, apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, byzant, separatrix, slice, shot

4. slash, gashverb

   a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

   Synonyms:
   gash, slice, virgule, solidus, separatrix, diagonal, cut, stroke

5. slash, cut downverb

   cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete

   Synonyms:
   thresh about, jactitate, bring down, toss, trounce, welt, cut out, fell, push down, convulse, trim down, reduce, cut down, strap, cut, cut back, strike down, knock down, trim, pull down, lather, whip, thresh, lash, down, flog, thrash about, gash, thrash, trim back, drop, mow

6. flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounceverb

   beat severely with a whip or rod

   "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"

   Synonyms:
   lambast, chide, welt, whip, convulse, crush, vanquish, blister, beat out, thresh, rack up, scald, strap, beat, reproof, trounce, flog, berate, jactitate, chew out, cut down, have words, lambaste, thresh about, bawl out, dress down, thrash about, take to task, worst, chew up, call down, lather, cane, thrash, toss, soap, reprimand, scold, lash, mop up, rebuke, whisk, jaw, rag, gash, pip, call on the carpet, remonstrate, lecture, shell

7. slash, gashverb

   cut open

   "she slashed her wrists"

   Synonyms:
   thresh about, jactitate, toss, trounce, welt, convulse, cut down, strap, lather, whip, thresh, lash, flog, thrash about, gash, thrash

8. slashverb

   cut drastically

   "Prices were slashed"

   Synonyms:
   gash, whip, thrash about, convulse, thrash, thresh, jactitate, trounce, flog, lash, lather, welt, cut down, strap, thresh about, toss

9. convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitateverb

   move or stir about violently

   "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"

   Synonyms:
   throw out, cast aside, toss out, discard, whip, convulse, welt, bat, thresh, flip, toss away, strap, pitch, lam, fling, cast away, trounce, lick, jactitate, dispose, flog, chuck, drub, thresh about, slam dance, cut down, sky, cream, slam, thrash about, cast out, lather, chuck out, thrash, toss, throw away, clobber, lash, mosh, gash, flail, put away

Matched Categories

1. • Beat
   • Cut
   • Land
   • Punctuation Mark
   • Reduce
   • Shake

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1. secosteroidsverb

   secosteroids means to cut.

   Submitted by bernice.chong on November 5, 2021  

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1. slashverb

   Synonyms:
   slit

2. slashnoun

   Synonyms:
   slit, long cut

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1. slashnoun

   Synonyms:
   incision, gash, cut, slit

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1. List of paraphrases for "slash":

   florida, stroke, bar, backslash, slant

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1. List of known nicknames for "Slash":

   Saul Hudson

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1. Kevin Lundberg:

   The state shouldn't come in and say to the individual businessman, 'You must violate your religious — and I'll say religious-slash-moral convictions. This baker (Silva), thought that was a violation of their moral convictions. The other baker, which we all know very well because of all the stories, clearly that was a violation of their religious convictions.

2. Tom Doyle:

   And that's what the kids loved, neil Young was one of course. Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Slash, Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top.

3. Joseph Conrad:

   How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat

4. Jimmy Evans:

   I want people to see him as this incredible musician slash athlete slash cat lover slash straight-A student. while my child is trans, and he's put in a box of being a trans person, he's so much more than that label.

5. Nikki Haley:

   I don't believe in the slash-and-burn approach. You know, as a governor you could never do that. That's not effective, i do think there are times where you can withhold dues. I don't think you should slash and cut across-the-board because I don't think that will accomplish the goal.