Thesaurus results for SLASHES

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verb

present tense third-person singular of slash

as in slits

to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife) the tire appears to have been deliberately slashed

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as in hides

to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible wildly slashing the ground with his club and never once hitting the golf ball he was aiming at

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slashes

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noun

plural of slash

as in tears

a long deep cut made a slash in the fabric with a knife

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Recent Examples of slashes

Verb

The process cuts down air pollution and slashes industrial water consumption. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 June 2026 Rivian slashes service wait times. —

Joel Feder, The Drive, 10 June 2026 The San Diego City Council unanimously finalized a deal Monday that slashes new trash fees for single-family homes starting next summer and eliminates paid parking in Balboa Park this December. —

David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026 There were also slashes through one of the plane’s tires. —

Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 4 June 2026 Just in time for summer, Amazon’s Memorial Day sale slashes 25% off the price of these Nike Calm Mules, which play off the trending sneakers-to-sandals trend. —

Tim Chan, Footwear News, 22 May 2026 SpaceX's Starlink is rolling out a new deal that slashes the monthly price of the satellite internet service in the US by $21. —

Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 5 May 2026 Earlier in the film, Kenobi slashes off the arm of a creature who was known then as Walrus Man and is known now as Ponda Baba. —

Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 May 2026 The ultra-low cost airline’s collapse after more than three decades slashes a budget option for local travelers, but its bright yellow planes had already dwindled to a handful of San Antonio routes as of earlier this year. —

Saul Pink, San Antonio Express-News, 2 May 2026

Noun

To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). —

Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026 Page also cited the administration’s efforts to cut grants from low-income schools, research in higher education and others, as well as slashes to the department’s Office of Civil Rights, research and data division, and general staff. —

Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026 Within many of the pieces are his grid-like codes, sculpted into nonsensical slashes and symbols that evoke the ancient writings of Mesopotamian and Sumerian cuneiform. —

Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 28 May 2026 In both cases, the victims suffered slashes to the face. —

Wcco Staff, CBS News, 14 May 2026 All central office departments will see staffing slashes. —

Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 8 May 2026 Dripping glitter, shimmering adhesive crystals, dramatic slashes of eyeliner and smudges of eyeshadow—there was a playful, shifting experimentalism here, to signal the young characters’ changeability and ingenuity. —

Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026 That segment of the show largely stripped out the guitars to focus on clubby techno and nasty slashes of synth noise. —

Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026 Remove from freezer, cut a few slashes across top of crust, and bake pie 5 minutes. —

Chris Morocco, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026

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The hotel is on the corner of Mission Street, which slices diagonally through the city, and the Embarcadero, which hugs the waterfront from the Bay Bridge west to Fisherman’s Wharf.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
The ones that are accepted are run through a machine that shakes the envelopes — this makes the ballot sink to the bottom of the envelope — and slices them open.

— Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 28 May 2026