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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, paradigm, prototype

microcosm
2 a piece that has been separated from the whole by cutting
  • Joe 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
Near Antonyms of slice

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

whole

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