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slice

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of slice

1 to cut into long slender pieces

slice the carrot into tiny strips

Synonyms of slice

sliver, splinter

Words Related to slice

chip, chop, dice, hash, julienne, mince

saw, scissor

cleave, rive, split

gash, incise, rip, slash, slit

2 to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife)

the shard of glass sliced my hand, and I started bleeding profusely

Synonyms of slice

cut, gash, incise, rip, shear, slash, slit

Words Related to slice

crosscut, hacksaw, saw, scissor

cleave, rive, split

pierce, stab

bruise, butcher, hack, haggle, lacerate, mangle

rend, tear

carve, chip, chisel, notch

anatomize, dissect, section

chop, dice, mince

amputate, cut off, sever

slice

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of slice

1 a number of things selected from a group to stand for the whole

the novel's multitudinous array of characters constitute a veritable slice of humanity

Synonyms of slice

cross section, sample, sampler, sampling, selection

Words Related to slice

case, example, exemplar, exemplification, illustration, instance, representative, specimen

archetype, classic, locus classicus, paradigm, prototype

microcosm

2 a piece that has been separated from the whole by cutting

took a slice from the cake before passing it down the table

Synonyms of slice

cut, cutting

Words Related to slice

chop, cutlet

length, part, portion, section, segment

chunk, hunk, lump

clipping, paring, shaving, sliver, snippet, splinter

3 something belonging to, due to, or contributed by an individual member of a group

there's a pile of money to be made on this land deal, and everybody's trying to get their slice

Synonyms of slice

allotment, allowance, cut, end, part, piece, portion, proportion, quota, share, take

Words Related to slice

lot, ration

commission, percentage

member, partition, section, segment

Phrases Synonymous with slice

piece of the action

Near Antonyms of slice

aggregate, composite, compound, pool, sum, total, totality

whole

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