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slashing

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slash·ing  (slshng)
adj.
1. Bitingly critical or satiric: slashing wit.
2. Dashing; pelting: a slashing hailstorm.
3. Brilliant; intense: slashing colors.
n.
The act of swinging a stick at an opponent in ice hockey or lacrosse, in violation of the rules.
slashing·ly adv.
slashing [ˈslæʃɪŋ]
adj
aggressively or harshly critical (esp in the phrase slashing attack)
slashingly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.slashing - as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"
dynamic, dynamical - characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality; "a dynamic market"; "a dynamic speaker"; "the dynamic president of the firm"
Translations
slashing [ˈslæʃɪŋ] ADJ [attack etc] → fulminante
slashing
adj blow → zerschmetternd; attack also → scharf; criticism → vernichtend


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Creakle had not preferred his claim to being a Tartar without reason; that he was the sternest and most severe of masters; that he laid about him, right and left, every day of his life, charging in among the boys like a trooper, and slashing away, unmercifully.
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They are clattering through the halls now, drinking the wines, shattering the crystal and glass, slashing the portraits.
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Now there's Morgan le Fay, as fresh and young as a Vassar pullet, to all appearances, and here is this old duke of the South Marches still slashing away with sword and lance at his time of life, after raising such a family as he has raised.
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