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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for slashing:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

slashing
    adj 1: as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-
           ridden cadenza"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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 random; to cut in long
      slits.
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   2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King.
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   3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
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