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SLASHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric
Example:
slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining
Classified under:
Similar:
cut (fashioned or shaped by cutting)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
Example:
the slashed prices attracted buyers
Synonyms:
cut; slashed
Classified under:
Similar:
decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes
Example:
brown iris...slashed with yellow
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
patterned (having patterns (especially colorful patterns))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb slash
Context examples:
It may be a weakness of mine that I have an incisive way of speech; but I threw all restraint to the winds and cut and slashed until the whole man of him was snarling.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
He had covered the distance and gone in more like a cat than a dog; and with the same cat-like swiftness he had slashed with his fangs and leaped clear.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But instead, Buck’s shoulder was slashed down each time as Spitz leaped lightly away.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
One only lingered, the black-browed Baron Brocas, who, making a gambade which brought him within arm-sweep of the serf, slashed him across the face with his riding-whip.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She rolled him off his legs so that he could not run, while she repeatedly ripped and slashed him with her fangs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Buck was beset by three huskies, and in a trice his head and shoulders were ripped and slashed.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
It was he who snarled warningly at the younger members of the pack or slashed at them with his fangs when they ambitiously tried to pass him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Hunters there are who fail to return to the camp, and hunters there have been whom their tribesmen found with throats slashed cruelly open and with wolf prints about them in the snow greater than the prints of any wolf.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He rushed in and snapped and slashed on the instant, without notice, before his foe could prepare to meet him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Of this offence Buck was unwittingly guilty, and the first knowledge he had of his indiscretion was when Sol-leks whirled upon him and slashed his shoulder to the bone for three inches up and down.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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