Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: slash
IPA transcription: [sl'æʃ]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: slash, cut_down
    Meaning: cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
  • Synonyms: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
    Meaning: beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
  • Synonyms: slash, gash
    Meaning: cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
  • Synonyms: slash
    Meaning: cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
Usage examples
  • A Wall Street raid is not a fang slash.
  • "I'll teach you to slash my aeroplane! Come with me!"
  • The prize-fighting apes and tigers will die all in good time in the course of natural evolution, but they will not die so long as the cowardly, somnambulistic apes and tigers club and scratch and slash.