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Noun slash has 4 senses
- cut, gash, slash, slice - a wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut"
 
--1 is a kind of wound, lesion 
 - slash - an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
 
--2 is a kind of land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma 
- solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix - a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
 
--3 is a kind of punctuation, punctuation mark 
 - slash, gash - a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
 
--4 is a kind of cut, cutting 
   
Verb slash has 5 senses
- slash, cut down - cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
 
--1 is one way to cut 
Sample sentence: 
They slash the trees 
 - flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
 
--2 is one way to beat, beat up, work over 
Sample sentence: 
They want to slash the prisoners  
 - slash, gash - cut open; "she slashed her wrists"
 
--3 is one way to cut 
Sample sentence: 
They will slash the duet 
 - slash - cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"
 
--4 is one way to reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Something ----s something 
- convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate - move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
 
--5 is one way to shake, agitate 
Sample sentences: 
 Something ----s 
 Somebody ----s 
   
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