slashing

slashing
Synonyms and related words:
abscission, acid, amputation, biting, burr, butchering, chiseling, chopping, cleavage, corrosive, cross-hatching, cutting, demitint, dichotomy, driving, effective, engravement, engraving, enucleation, etch, etching, excision, fission, forceful, forcible, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, gutsy, half tint, hatching, imperative, impressive, incision, incisive, inscript, inscription, laceration, line, lining, marking, mordant, mutilation, nervous, penetrating, piercing, poignant, powerful, punchy, rending, resection, ripping, scission, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, section, sensational, severance, sinewed, sinewy, slash, slicing, splitting, stipple, stippling, striking, strong, surgery, tearing, telling, tint, tooling, trenchant, type-cutting, vigorous, vital

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  • slashing — [slashiŋ] adj. 1. severe; merciless; violent 2. dashing; spirited 3. Informal huge [a slashing success] n. 1. the act of one that slashes 2. SLASH1 (n. 4 & 5) …   English World dictionary

  • slashing — index incisive, mordacious Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • slashing — slashingly, adv. /slash ing/, n. 1. a slash. adj. 2. sweeping; cutting. 3. violent; severe: a slashing wind. 4. dashing; impetuous. 5. vivid; flashing; brilliant. 6. Informal. very large or fine; splendid: a slashing fortune. [1590 1600; SLASH1 + …   Universalium

  • slashing — /ˈslæʃɪŋ/ (say slashing) noun 1. slash. –adjective 2. sweeping; cutting. 3. violent; severe. 4. severely critical or sarcastic. 5. dashing; impetuous. 6. Colloquial very large or fine: a slashing fortune. –slashingly, adverb …  

  • Slashing — Slash Slash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slashing}.] [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF. esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E. slate, slice, slit, v. t.] 1. To cut by striking violently and at… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • slashing — I. adjective Date: 1593 1. incisively satiric or critical 2. driving, pelting 3. vivid, brilliant • slashingly adverb II. noun Date: 1576 …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • slashing — slash•ing [[t]ˈslæʃ ɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) a slash 2) spo the illegal swinging of the stick at an opponent, as in ice hockey or lacrosse 3) sweeping; cutting 4) violent; severe: a slashing wind[/ex] 5) vivid; flashing; brilliant • Etymology: 1590–1600… …   From formal English to slang

  • slashing — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. harsh, brutal, vicious; see cruel 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective So sharp as to cause mental pain: acerbic, acid, acidic, acrid, astringent, biting, caustic, corrosive, cutting, mordacious, mordant, pungent,… …   English dictionary for students

  • slashing — slash·ing || slæʃɪŋ n. slash, gash, cut; cutting, gashing; quick and easy method for clearing areas of forest adj. of someone or something that slashes; critical, sarcastic; driving, pelting; vivid, intense, strong; cool, amazing (Slang)… …   English contemporary dictionary

  • slashing — 1) hassling 2) lashings …   Anagrams dictionary

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