Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Specifically, in botany, deeply cut-lobed or laciniate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective 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.
- adjective (Bot.) Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having been slashed,
cut orrent . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
slash .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- adjective patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes
- adjective having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric
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Examples
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Bush, famously or in -, slashed taxes to levels undreamt of even by Reagan.
Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed 2009
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It uncovered a lump of cash roughly equal to the $893.5 million the state's transportation board slashed from the agency in December.
The money in VDOT's mattress Paige Winfield Cunningham 2010
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Thus we have Starbright republishing Fran Manushkin's "Baby Come Out", while Tricycle (a division of Ten Speed Press) has taken on the Remy Charlip books "Fortunately" and "Arm In Arm In Arm" -- these three are titles that Murdoch (AKA Harpercollins) slashed from the Morrow backlist catalog at takeover time several years ago.
A role model in better clothes Roger Sutton 2007
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$40 B slashed from the neediest Americans while squandering $9 B per month on an unjust war.
Think Progress » Cheney Casts Deciding Vote to Pass Budget That Hammers the Poor 2005
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Hail hit hard and fast, and rain slashed the windows.
Real life, or Memorex? deep_bluze 2005
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One, several people mention that Paul Martin slashed funding to Health Canada, resulting in the current, infamous long waiting times.
more answers 2005
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THE "bikeway rapist" who terrorised Brisbane for more than two years had his 25 years jail term slashed to 16 years after the Court of Appeal today found the sentencing judge failed to properly take into account all the mitigating circumstances.
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Munir Hussain had his 30-month term slashed to a 12-month suspended sentence because he had acted under "extreme provocation" when he hit intruder Walid Salem with a cricket bat, Lord Judge ruled.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Munir Hussain had his 30-month term slashed to a 12-month suspended sentence because he had acted under "extreme provocation" when he hit intruder Walid Salem with a cricket bat, Lord Judge ruled.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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THE "bikeway rapist" who terrorised Brisbane for more than two years had his 25 years jail term slashed to 16 years after the Court of Appeal today found the sentencing judge failed to properly take into account all the mitigating circumstances.
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