SLASHED

slashed

(adjective) having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric; “a slashed doublet”; “slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining”

cut, slashed

(adjective) (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply; “the slashed prices attracted buyers”

slashed

(adjective) patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes; “brown iris...slashed with yellow”- Willa Cather

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

slashed

simple past tense and past participle of slash

Adjective

slashed (not comparable)

Having been slashed, cut or rent.

Marked with a slash.

Anagrams

• Shadles, adshels, hassled

Source: Wiktionary


Slashed, a.

1. Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture. A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Bot.)

Definition: Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.

SLASH

Slash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Slashing.] Etym: [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 random; to cut in long slits.

2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] King.

3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] Dr. H. More.

Slash, v. i.

Definition: To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly. Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.

Slash, n.

1. A long cut; a cut made at random.

2. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.

3. Etym: [Cf. Slashy.] pl.

Definition: Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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