slashed

Meanings

• cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
• beat severely with a whip or rod
• cut open
  • "she slashed her wrists"
• cut drastically
  • "Prices were slashed"
• move or stir about violently
• patterned by having color applied with sweeping strokes; - Willa Cather
  • "brown iris...slashed with yellow"
• having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric
  • "a slashed doublet"
  • "slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining"
• (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
  • "the slashed prices attracted buyers"

Synonyms

convulse, cut, cut down, flog, gash, jactitate, lash, lather, slash, strap, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss, trounce, welt, whip