Synonyms of slashing

slashing

verb

present participle of slash

1

as in slicing

to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)

the tire appears to have been deliberately slashed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slicing
• slitting
• ripping
• cutting
• stabbing
• piercing
• bruising
• splitting
• incising
• shearing
• gashing
• chopping
• sawing
• tearing
• severing
• cleaving
• carving
• crosscutting
• hacking
• lacerating
• scissoring
• chipping
• mangling
• dissecting
• riving
• rending
• butchering
• haggling
• chiseling
• hacksawing
• notching
• sectioning
• mincing
• dicing
• amputating
• cutting off
• anatomizing

2

as in whipping

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• whipping
• hiding
• cutting
• flicking
• lashing
• switching
• slapping
• hitting
• flailing
• knocking
• punching
• thrashing
• flogging
• licking
• scourging
• flagellating
• smacking
• banging
• tanning
• pounding
• whacking
• spanking
• whaling
• mauling
• swiping
• clipping
• strapping
• leathering
• batting
• horsewhipping
• beating
• birching
• cowhiding
• rawhiding
• clapping
• thumping
• swatting
• boxing
• caning
• clubbing
• pelting
• bashing
• cracking
• socking
• hammering
• slugging
• battering
• thwacking
• pummeling
• clobbering
• bludgeoning
• pasting
• cudgeling
• smiting
• quirting
• touching up
• mangling
• clouting
• bopping
• knouting
• cuffing
• roughing
• busting
• paddling
• walloping
• lambasting
• whopping
• buffeting
• working over
• lathering
• slogging
• belting
• slating
• pistol-whipping
• blackjacking
• fustigating
• basting
• threshing
• lacing
• fibbing
• drubbing
• lamming
• tromping
• belaboring
• bunging
• whupping
• pommeling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of slashing

Deputies said suspect Viviana Rocha carried out her alleged tire-slashing spree in the 5000 block of Verdugo Way on Wednesday morning. — Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026

With ancient Greek tale The Odyssey still slashing its way to peak box office, the sword and sorcery age remains a potent genre for Hollywood. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2026

The July report included downward revisions for hiring in each of the previous two months, slashing job gains by a total of 103,000 positions. — Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

One of those attacks was a bear slashing a man’s chest outside his home in North Canaan. — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026

But Hilton had grown impatient as his radical vision for Cameron’s UK — decentralizing power, slashing the civil service — succumbed to political realities. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Senate Republicans have expressed wariness in recent days about the prospect of slashing those standards, which advocates say help keep kids safe and healthy. — Zachary Schermele, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026

Moreover, this makes the heat pump a green technology, slashing greenhouse gas emissions from both energy production and chemical refrigerants. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026

Even though that’s a drop in the bucket for one of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, with $925 billion in assets under management, PIF had already been slashing costs at LIV Golf before ultimately pulling financial support. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 5 Aug. 2026