Thesaurus results for SLASHING

slashing

verb

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present participle of slash

as in slicing

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

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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

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Recent Examples of slashing Intuit — The maker of TurboTax software saw shares tumble more than 3% after Reuters reported that Intuit will be slashing about 17% of its workforce, or roughly 3,000 employees. —

Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 20 May 2026 Trump has also proposed slashing nearly $800 million from the park system’s roughly $3-billion operating budget. —

Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026 Boston alone has proposed slashing 568 positions in a budget proposal passed by the local school committee in March, resulting in slashes to currently vacant positions but also including hundreds of layoffs. —

Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026 At home, his state-slashing experiment is on the line. —

Chris Pomorski Roger Cohen Reginald Dwayne Betts David Marchese David Wallace-Wells Parul Sehgal Nitsuh Abebe Kim Hew-Low Kwame Anthony Appiah John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for slashing

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Some varieties of slicing cucumbers have very tender skins and bruise easily.

— Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 28 May 2026
Nothing arrived pre-chopped, so there was still some prep, but it was limited to quick tasks like slicing scallions, dicing a pepper, and chopping cashews.

— Erin Bunch, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 May 2026