SLASHING

slashing

(adjective) as if striking with slashing blows; “his slashing demon-ridden cadenza”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

slashing

present participle of slash

Noun

slashing (countable and uncountable, plural slashings)

The action of something that slashes.

(forestry, in the plural) slash (woody debris)

Anagrams

• Singhals, ashlings, hassling, lashings, slangish

Source: Wiktionary

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