slash
US: /ˈsɫæʃ/
UK: /slˈæʃ/
UK: /slˈæʃ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
slash /'slæʃ/
- danh từ
- vết chém, vết rạch, vết cắt
- đường rạch, đường cắt (ở áo phụ nữ...)
- đống cành lá cắt (khi đốn cây)
- động từ
- rạch, cắt, khía
- hạ (giá), cắt bớt
- to slash a speech: cắt bớt nhiều đoạn trong một bài diễn văn
- quất, quật, đánh (bằng roi)
- (thông tục) đả kích, đập tơi bời (một cuốn tiểu thuyết...)
- (quân sự) chặt (cây) để làm đống cây cản
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb [VN]
1 to make a long cut with a sharp object, especially in a violent way: Someone had slashed the tyres on my car. + She tried to kill herself by slashing her wrists. + We had to slash our way through the undergrowth with sticks.
2 [often passive] (often used in newspapers) to reduce sth by a large amount: to slash costs / prices / fares + The workforce has been slashed by half.
Phrasal Verbs: slash at sb/sth (with sth) to attack sb violently with a knife, etc.
+ noun
1 [C] a sharp movement made with a knife, etc. in order to cut sb/sth
2 [C] a long narrow wound or cut: a slash across his right cheek + (figurative) Her mouth was a slash of red lipstick.
3 [C] (BrE also oblique) the symbol (/) used to show ALTERNATIVES, as in lunch and/or dinner and 4/5 people and to write FRACTIONS, as in 3/4
See also -
4 (a slash) [sing.] (BrE, slang) an act of URINATING: He's just nipped out to have a slash.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 cut, gash, hack, score, slit, knife, lacerate; wound; scar:
The guide slashed away at the undergrowth with his machete.
2 lash, whip, scourge, flog, beat, horsewhip, flail, flagellate, flay, lambaste, thrash, beat:
In those days, a convicted felon was beaten and slashed in front of a crowd in the market-place
3 cut, reduce, decrease, drop, mark down, trim, lower:
Prices were slashed to clear out last season's styles.
n.
4 cut, gash, incision, slit, slice, gouge, rent, rip, score, laceration:
There is a slash in each sleeve that reveals the colourful fabric underneath
5 cut, reduction, decrease, mark-down:
The department stores continued their price slashes to the end of January.
Collocation dictionary
ADV.
wildly
PREP.
at, through
He slashed through the rope.
| with
He slashed wildly at me with a knife.
Concise English dictionary
slashes|slashed|slashingslæʃ
noun
+a wound made by cutting
+an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
+a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
+a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
verb
+cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
+beat severely with a whip or rod
+cut open
+cut drastically
+move or stir about violently
