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slit - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | slit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small opening, cut |
| Synonyms: | aperture, breach, cleavage, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, gash, hole, incision, rent, split, tear |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| Main Entry: | slit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut open |
| Synonyms: | gash, incise, knife, lance, pierce, rip, sever, slash, slice, slot, tear, split open |
| Antonyms: | close, mend, sew |
| 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: | chink |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | aperture, cleft, crack, crevice, cut, fissure, gap, hole, rift, slit, slot, space |
| Main Entry: | cleft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, breach, canyon, chasm, chink, cleavage, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fracture, gorge, gulch, opening, ravine, rent, rift, rime, schism, slit, clough, clove, rima, rimation |
| Antonyms: | closure, solid, closing |
| Main Entry: | crevice/crevasse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crack, gap |
| Synonyms: | abyss, chasm, chink, cleft, crack, cranny, cut, division, fissure, fracture, hole, interstice, opening, precipice, rent, rift, slit, split |
| Main Entry: | gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, breach |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void, clove, discontinuity, interspace |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| 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: | interstice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening, crack |
| Synonyms: | aperture, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, gap, hole, interval, slit, space |
| Antonyms: | closure, closing |
| Main Entry: | laceration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cut, wound |
| Synonyms: | gash, injury, lesion, pierce, rip, slash, slice, slit, stab, tear |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | mangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mutilate, deform |
| Synonyms: | batter, break, bruise, butcher, carve, contort, crush, cut, damage, deface, destroy, disfigure, distort, flay, hack, hash, impair, injure, lacerate, maim, mar, maul, rend, ruin, separate, slash, slay, slice, slit, spoil, tear, wound, wreck |
| Antonyms: | cure, heal, help, preserve |
| Main Entry: | nick |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | chip, scratch |
| Synonyms: | cut, damage, dent, dint, indent, jag, knock, mark, mill, notch, scar, score, slit |
| Main Entry: | orifice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | aperture, cavity, crack, hole, mouth, outlet, slit, spout, vent, window |
| Main Entry: | perforate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a hole in |
| Synonyms: | bore, drill, drive, hole, penetrate, permeate, pierce, pit, probe, punch, puncture, slit, stab, honeycomb, poke full of holes, shoot full of holes |
| Antonyms: | close up |
| Main Entry: | pierce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, penetrate |
| Synonyms: | bore, break, break in, cleave, crack, drill, enter, gash, incise, intrude, perforate, plow, prick, probe, puncture, run through, slash, slice, slit, spike, stab, transfix, break through, crack open, pass through, stick into |
| Antonyms: | sew up |
| Main Entry: | prick |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stab, perforate |
| Synonyms: | bore, cut, drill, enter, hurt, jab, lance, pierce, pink, punch, puncture, slash, slit, smart, spur, sting |
| Main Entry: | puncture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole, rupture |
| Synonyms: | break, cut, damage, flat, jab, leak, nick, opening, prick, slit, stab, flat tire, perforation |
| Main Entry: | rip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tear, cut |
| Synonyms: | cleavage, gash, hole, laceration, rent, slash, slit, split |
| Antonyms: | closure |
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