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| Main Entry: | slash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut |
| Synonyms: | carve, chop, gash, hack, incise, injure, lacerate, pierce, rend, rip, score, sever, slice, slit, wound, open up |
| Antonyms: | fix, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | slash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce greatly |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, clip, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, drop, hack, lower, pare, retrench, shave, shorten, mark down |
| Antonyms: | increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | abridge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abstract, chop, clip, compress, concentrate, condense, contract, curtail, cut, decrease, digest, diminish, downsize, lessen, limit, narrow, reduce, restrict, slash, snip*, summarize, trim, truncate, blue pencil, put in nutshell |
| Antonyms: | add, enlarge, expand, extend, increase, lengthen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aperture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole |
| Synonyms: | breach, break, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cut, eye, fissure, gap, gash, interstice, opening, orifice, outlet, passage, puncture, rift, rupture, slash, slit, slot, space, vent, perforation, pinhole |
| Main Entry: | carve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut carefully with sharp instrument |
| Synonyms: | block out, chip, chisel, cleave, dissect, divide, engrave, etch, fashion, form, grave, hack, hew, incise, indent, model, mold, pattern, shape, slash, slice, stipple, sunder, tool, trim, whittle, dissever, insculpt, mould, rough-hew, sculpt |
| Main Entry: | chip |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | knock a piece out of |
| Synonyms: | break, chisel, chop, clip, crack, crumble, cut off, damage, flake, fragment, gash, hack, hew, incise, nick, notch, shape, shear, slash, slice, sliver, snip, splinter, split, whack, whittle, crack off, cut away, hackle, snick |
| Main Entry: | chop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up with tool |
| Synonyms: | cleave, clip, cube, dice, divide, fell, fragment, hack, hash, hew, lop, mangle, mince, sever, shear, slash, truncate, whack, axe, hackle |
| Main Entry: | crop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, trim off |
| Synonyms: | chop, clip, curtail, detach, disengage, hew, lop, mow, pare, prune, reduce, shave, shear, shorten, slash, snip, top, truncate, detruncate, pollard, skive |
| Main Entry: | curtail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut short; abridge |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, chop, clip, contract, cramp, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, dock, downsize, halt, lessen, lop, reduce, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, boil down, get to meat, minify, pare down, put in nutshell, roll back |
| Antonyms: | extend, increase, lengthen, prolong |
| Main Entry: | decrease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow less or make less |
| Synonyms: | abate, calm down, check, contract, crumble, curb, curtail, cut down, decay, decline, degenerate, depreciate, deteriorate, diminish, droop, drop, drop off, dwindle, ease, ebb, evaporate, fade, fall off, lessen, let up, lighten, lower, modify, peter out, quell, quiet, reduce, restrain, settle, shrink, shrivel, sink, slacken, slash, slump, soften, subside, wane, waste, weaken, wear down, wither, devaluate, die down, dry up, lose edge, narrow down, run low, slack off, slow down, tail off, wear away |
| Antonyms: | add, develop, enlarge, expand, grow, increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | excise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove, delete |
| Synonyms: | amputate, black out, cut, cut off, cut out, cut up, destroy, edit, elide, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, extract, gut, knock off*, launder*, slash, stamp out*, strike, trim, wipe out, X out, blot out*, blue pencil, cross out, exscind, exsect, lop off, resect, scissor out, scratch out |
| Antonyms: | add, put in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chop down |
| Synonyms: | bowl over*, bring down, cleave, cut, cut down, dash, demolish, down, drop, flatten, floor*, gash, ground, hack, hew, level, mangle, prostrate, pull down, raze, sever, shoot, slash, split, sunder, tumble, blow down, cause to fall, knock down, knock over, lay low*, mow down, rive, shoot down*, strike down, throw down |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, erect, raise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut made by slicing |
| Synonyms: | cleft, furrow, gouge, incision, laceration, mark, nip, notch, rent, slash, slit, split, tear, wound |
| Main Entry: | gash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut by slicing |
| Synonyms: | carve, cleave, furrow, gouge, incise, injure, lacerate, lance, mark, nip, notch, pierce, rend, slash, slit, split, tear, wound |
| Main Entry: | incision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut, slit |
| Synonyms: | cleavage, cleft, dissection, gash, groove, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, pierce, slash, stab, wound, carving |
| Main Entry: | knife |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stab with pointed tool |
| Synonyms: | brand, carve, clip, cut, hurt, impale, jag, kill, lacerate, lance, pierce, shank, slash, slice, spit, stick, thrust, wound, chop down, open up, shiv |
| Main Entry: | lacerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tear, cut; wound |
| Synonyms: | claw, gash, harm, hurt, injure, jag, lance, maim, mangle, mutilate, puncture, rend, rip, score, serrate, slash, stab, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | laceration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut, wound |
| Synonyms: | gash, injury, lesion, pierce, rip, slash, slice, slit, stab, tear |
| Main Entry: | lambaste |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | punish, beat |
| Synonyms: | assail, attack, berate, blister, bludgeon, castigate, censure, criticize, cudgel, denounce, excoriate, flay, flog, hammer, hit, pan, pelt, pound, pummel, rake over the coals*, rebuke, reprimand, roast, scold, scorch, scourge, shellac, slam, slap, slash, smear, smother, strike, thrash, trim, upbraid, wallop, whip, lash into, read the riot act, rip into, scathe |
| Antonyms: | praise, uphold |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pierce |
| Synonyms: | bore, cut, gash, gore, incise, penetrate, prick, puncture, slash, slice, slit, stab, cut into, stick into |
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