1. Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an axe or machete
   "The workers slashed through the dense jungle vegetation";
   - cut down
    
2. Cut open
   "she slashed her wrists";
   - gash
    
3. Cut drastically
   "Prices were slashed"
    
4. Beat severely with a whip or rod
   "The sailor was slashd for disobedience";
   - flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, strap, trounce, whale [N. Amer, informal]
    
5. Move or stir about violently
   "The feverish patient slashed around in his bed";
   - convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, toss, jactitate [rare]

1. A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
   "The slash across the painting ruined its value";
   - gash
    
2. A wound made by cutting
   "he put a bandage over the slash";
   - cut, gash, slice
    
3. A punctuation mark ('/') used to separate related items of information
   "The menu listed the price as '$10/person' using a slash";
   - solidus [Brit, Cdn], virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix, oblique [Brit]
    
4. An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
   "The slash left behind after clear-cutting made it difficult for new growth to establish"
    
5. [Brit, vulgar] The discharge of urine
   "he took a slash";
   - micturition, urination, pee [informal]

Derived forms: slashed, slashing, slashes

Type of: agitate, beat, beat up, bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, cutting, dry land, earth, elimination, evacuation, excretion, ground, land, lesion, punctuation, punctuation mark [Brit], reduce, shake, solid ground, terra firma, trim, trim back, trim down, voiding, work over [informal], wound

Encyclopedia: Slash