slashing
Making sweeping cuts
Slashing describes cutting with sweeping strokes, often violent or dramatic: a slashing attack with a knife, slashing rain against the windows.
Figuratively, it means severe or drastic: slashing budget cuts, a slashing critique.
In hockey, slashing is a penalty for swinging a stick at an opponent.
The word conveys aggressive, broad strokes rather than precise incisions.
Flat cutting edge
- incisionControlled cut into tissue
- slicingCutting into portions
- carvingShaping by cutting away
- gashDeep, ragged incision
laceration · scalpel · cleaving · shredding · serrated · machete · knife · sword
Dividing via sharp edge
- pricesAmounts charged for goods
- budgetPlan for spending
- costsAmounts required to pay
- discountReduced price offered
markdown · slicing · trimming · axing · gutting · halving · reduction · austerity
Severely and bitingly critical
- lambastingHarshly criticizing someone
- evisceratingRemoving internal organs
- excoriatingSeverely denouncing or censuring
- savagingAttacking with ferocity
tearing apart · panning · roasting · blistering · harsh · brutal · devastating · merciless
blade
Flat cutting edge
gash · laceration · scalpel · cleaving · shredding · serrated · machete · knife · sword · razor
cutting
Dividing via sharp edge
discount · markdown · slicing · trimming · axing · gutting · halving · reduction · austerity · layoffs
scathing
Severely and bitingly critical
- lambastingHarshly criticizing someone
- evisceratingRemoving internal organs
- excoriatingSeverely denouncing or censuring
savaging · tearing apart · panning · roasting · blistering · harsh · brutal · devastating · merciless · vitriolic
sweeping
Extensive and far-reaching
whipping · hacking · chopping · swiping · lunging · wild · frenzied · violent · rapid · fierce
scratch
Superficial wound or mark
nail · bear · lion · tiger · cat · predator · attack · swipe · maul · rake
- reducingshrinking, lessening, diminishing, decreasing, cutting back
- Bread Bakingbread flour, yeast, dough, knead, kneading
- hockeypuck, hockey, ice hockey, pucks, field hockey
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
- cuttingslicing, slice, chopping, dice, dicing
- decreasesreduction, decline, drop, fall, decrease
- slashing tiresDeliberately puncturing vehicle tires
- tire slashingDeliberately cutting car rubber