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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slashed  \Slashed\,  a. 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slash  \Slash\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Slashed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Slashing}.]  [OE.  slaschen  of  uncertain  origin;  cf  OF 
  esclachier  to  break,  esclechier  esclichier  to  break,  and  E. 
  slate,  slice,  slit,  v.  t.] 
  1.  To  cut  by  striking  violently  and  at  random;  to  cut  in  long 
  slits. 
 
  2.  To  lash;  to  ply  the  whip  to  [R.]  --King. 
 
  3.  To  crack  or  snap,  as  a  whip.  [R.]  --Dr.  H.  More 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  slashed 
  adj  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"  [syn: 
  {cut},  {gashed}] 
  4:  (used  of  rates  or  prices)  reduced  usually  sharply;  "the 
  slashed  prices  attracted  buyers"  [syn:  {cut}]




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