slashed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
    slash; cut down.
  2. verb beat severely with a whip or rod
    trounce; strap; welt; whip; slash; lash; flog; lather.
    • The teacher often flogged the students
    • The children were severely trounced
  3. verb cut open
    gash; slash.
    • she slashed her wrists
  4. verb cut drastically
    slash.
    • Prices were slashed
  5. verb move or stir about violently
    thresh about; thrash about; convulse; jactitate; thresh; slash; toss; thrash.
    • The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed
  6. adjective satellite patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes
    • brown iris...slashed with yellow"- Willa Cather
  7. adjective satellite having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric
    • a slashed doublet
    • slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining
  8. adjective satellite (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
    cut.
    • the slashed prices attracted buyers

WordNet

Slashed adjective
Definitions
  1. Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture.
    A gray jerkin, with scarlet and slashed sleeves. Sir W. Scott.
  2. (Bot.) Divided into many narrow parts or segments by sharp incisions; laciniate.

Webster 1913