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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How to use slash in a sentence?

1. Nancy Pelosi:

   House Republicans are doubling down on an extreme MAGA agenda: to criminalize women’s health care, to slash seniors’ Medicare (including with the repeal of the lower drug prices for seniors in the Inflation Reduction Act), and to attack our democracy.

2. Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts:

   If the drought continues through June 2018, we will be forced to slash this forecast back to 10.5-10.7 million tonnes.

3. Finance Minister Joe Ceci:

   The first option is to slash and burn vital programs that Alberta families count on, and that's the wrong path, instead we will carefully maintain spending, ensuring we are spending every tax dollar wisely while helping Albertans weather this storm.

4. Donald Trump:

   I call him a socialist-slash-communist, because that's what he is.

5. John Catanzara:

   Come midnight on Thursday, slash Friday morning members will be forced into a no-pay status that did not complete the portal information or subject to testing thereafter -- that's their last position.