Slashed

Definition: Slashed

Slashed

Adjective

1. Patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes; "brown iris...slashed with yellow"- Willa Cather.

2. Having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric; "a slashed doublet"; "slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining".

3. Wounded by cutting deeply; "got a gashed arm in a knife fight"; "had a slashed cheek from the broken glass".

4. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply; "the slashed prices attracted buyers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "slashed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Slashed

Crosswords: Slashed

Well down here at Crazy Gene's Used Airplanes, people think we're out of our minds since we slashed the prices on our used C1-23's! (Air America; writing credit: John Eskow)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Slashed to Ribbons in Defense of Love and Other Stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Man in medieval livery with slashed sleeves holding mace. Credit: Library of Congress.

Operations in harvesting of sugarcane. Cane is loaded onto truck or wagon by means of loading rig. Water cart is shown amidst slashed cane. Near New Roads, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Turpentine "chipper" and slashed tree near Homerville, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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The cat leaped at it and struck at its straining head and slashed at its moving feet.

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Business

Several large international advertisers slashed adverting budgets and others simply left Vietnam to return to their own falling economies in the region. (references)

Economic History

Burma

Since then, Burma's premier hotels have slashed rates while competing for customers. (references)

Maldives

As an incentive, the government slashed by 50 percent the 3 percent royalty paid by foreign factory owners. (references)

Romania

With investment slashed, Romania's technological infrastructure rapidly fell behind that of even its Balkan neighbors. (references)

Political Economy

THAILAND

Economic contraction associated with the financial crisis slashed Thai imports, which dropped from $72 billion in 1996 to just over $40 billion in 1998 before rebounding to $62.4 billion in 2000 and a projected $62.5 billion in 2001. Imports from the United States fell correspondingly, dropping from $8.7 billion in 1997 to $6.4 billion in 1999 before recovering to $6.7 billion in 2000 and a projected $7.3 billion in 2001. (Note: Different trade calculation methodologies result in discrepancies between U.S. and Thai figures; this report uses Bank of Thailand data). (references)

Trade

Uzbekistan

In 1998 the number of importers given convertibility quotas was cut by one third, and the remaining two-thirds saw their quotas slashed in half. (references)

Bahrain

Imported cars will drop to 15% from 20% in 2001, to 10% in 2002 and 7.5 in 2003. Duties on some essential goods will also be slashed to 5.5% by the end of 2002 from 10% now. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "slashed": cut gashed slashed split ♦ slashed prices ♦ slashed sleeve. Additional references.

Beginning with "slashed": slashed-price.

Ending with "slashed": badly-slashed, bullet-slashed, calmly-slashed, rain-slashed, silk-slashed, Squarrose-slashed.

Chinese 

大幅度削减 (slashing). (various references)

Finnish

suuri hinnanalennus (slashed price). (various references)

German

Schmarren (rubbish, tripe), schlitzte (slitted). (various references)

Greek 

εκποιημένεσ τιμέσ (slashed prices). (various references)

Hebrew 

מופחת (reduced). (various references)

Indonesian

tersayat (be sliced into, deeply wounded). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

袈裟懸け (slashed diagonally from the shoulder). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けさがけ (slashed diagonally from the shoulder). (various references)

Korean 

썩 � �". (various references)

Manx

scart (apart, detached, disjoined, gape, recess, separate, separated), giarrit (carved, censored, chopped, clipped, condensed, curtailed, disconnected, hewn, intersected, lanced, lopped, nicked, shortened, trimmed, truncated), fannit. (various references)

Pig Latin

ashedslay

Russian 

урезать (cut down). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prosečen rukav (slashed sleeve). (various references)

Misspellings

"Slashed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sashed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hassled.

-1 letter: dashes, hassel, hassle, lashed, lashes, sadhes, sashed, selahs, shades, shaled, shales, sheals.

-2 letters: ashed, ashes, assed, dahls, dales, deals, deash, dhals, hades, haled, hales, heads, heals, lades, lased, lases, leads, leash, sades, sadhe, sales, seals, selah, shade, shads, shale, sheal, sheas, sheds, slash, sleds.

-3 letters: ales, dahl, dahs, dale, dals, dash, deal, dels.

+1 letter: chadless, handless, handsels, headless, splashed.

+2 letters: asphodels, coalsheds, deathless, headsails, shadeless, shadflies, shetlands.

+3 letters: blandishes, damselfish, dealfishes, falsehoods, gasholders, handleless, headstalls, hydrolases, ladyfishes, leaseholds, mishandles, shadowless, sheldrakes, slapdashes, stablished, steelheads, swellheads, threadless.

+4 letters: blandishers, chrysalides, dealerships, deathlessly, deshabilles, diplophases, disenthrals, dishabilles, established, leaderships, sleepyheads.

+5 letters: balderdashes, candlefishes, damselfishes, daughterless, disenthralls, disestablish, headlessness, hemodialyses, hemodialysis, hollandaises, hospitalised, hydrolysates, hydroxylases, leaseholders, paddlefishes, psychedelias, saddlecloths, shareholders, slaveholders, smallholders, stadtholders, stakeholders, stallholders, stickhandles, swashbuckled, switchblades.

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