verb
- Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete.
- Beat severely with a whip or rod.
- usage: "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- Cut open.
- usage: "she slashed her wrists"
- Cut drastically.
- usage: "Prices were slashed"
- synonyms: slash
- Move or stir about violently.
- usage: "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
- synonyms: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate
adjective
- Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes. "brown iris... Slashed with yellow- Willa Cather
- Having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric.
- usage: "a slashed doublet"; "slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining"
- Used of rates or prices. ( reduced usually sharply)
- usage: "the slashed prices attracted buyers"
- synonyms: cut
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