Definition

Adjective: 1. Cut or wounded with a sweeping stroke: Describes something that has been cut, torn, or gashed, often with a sharp instrument, leaving a long, deep mark. 2. Reduced sharply: Used to describe rates, prices, or amounts that have been cut drastically or severely lowered. 3. Decorated with slits: Describes fabric or clothing that has long, narrow ornamental cuts, often revealing a different color or material underneath. 4. Marked with streaks or lines: Describes a surface patterned with broad, sweeping strokes or streaks of color.

Examples

• The slashed tires rendered the car immobile.
• The store advertised slashed prices on all winter clothing.
• The knight wore a slashed doublet that showed the blue silk beneath the red velvet.
• The painting featured a sky slashed with brilliant orange at sunset.

Advanced Usage

• "Slashed and burned": A phrase (often used literally in agriculture or metaphorically) describing a radical, destructive clearing or elimination.
• In artistic description, "slashed" can imply vigor or violence in the application of marks.

Variants and Related Words

• Slash (verb): To cut with a violent sweeping stroke; to reduce drastically.
• Slash (noun): A long, deep cut; a diagonal stroke (/) used in writing; a sharp reduction.
• Slashing (adjective): Forcefully critical; moving or striking with force.

Synonyms

• Cut: To make an opening with a sharp edge.
• Gashed: Cut deeply.
• Reduced: Made smaller or less.
• Lowered: Brought down in level.
• Streaked: Marked with lines or bands of color.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Slash away at: To attack or cut at something repeatedly.
• Slash down: To cut so that something falls.

Related Idioms

• To slash one's wrists: An idiom meaning to drastically and harmfully reduce one's own chances, often in a business or political context. (Note: This is a metaphorical idiom; the literal meaning is a serious act of self-harm.)

Adjective

1. (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
   • the slashed prices attracted buyers
2. having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric
   • a slashed doublet
   • slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining
3. patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes
   • brown iris...slashed with yellow- Willa Cather