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

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