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📉 To reduce a lot 🔪 To cut deeply ➗ A / symbol 🥲 To whip hard 🩸 A long cut 🌲 Forest debris
to slash

to slash

79 3.7
To reduce something a lot, for example prices or jobs
  • verb
  • /slæʃ/
translation icon : recortar
  • Changes in various technologies and in everyday behavior could slash that number in half.
  • slash budgets
  • slash spending
  • slash costs

It's it's things that you can do personally to slash your risk of breast cancer.

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Examples

  • President Obama called off the construction indefinitely, slashing funding in 2009 and finally withdrawing all support in 2011.

    Academic text (2012)

  • As U.S. school administrators seek to slash expenses, libraries become a convenient target.

    Academic text (2007)

  • "Obama will slash defense spending..."

    Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)

  • The Fed likes to be able to slash interest rates and help people through a recession.

  • In the last two months $1.6 million has been slashed from my silicon project.

    The Vindicator (1986)

  • Councils throughout England are slashing services as a result of their budgets being cut.

    Academic text (2011)

  • To survive, the division had to slash costs and nail down deals with other automakers.

    Academic text (2004)

  • Germany and Italy have slashed the guaranteed prices they offer new solar projects.

    Academic text (2012)

  • New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, facing a budget crunch, slashed recycling funding by 38 percent.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The company decided to slash its marketing budget in order to cope with rising costs.

Synonyms

to cut
vsto slash
∞ 1.0

To divide something using a sharp tool, often into pieces

focuses on making very large reductions in amount rather than physical dividing
to cut down
vsto slash
65 2.7

To make something smaller in amount or number

reduces by a much larger amount and is more drastic
to trim down
vsto slash
3 3.4

To make something smaller by cutting or removing parts

is more drastic and reduces by a much larger amount

Antonyms

to increase
∞ 1.0

To make something larger or more in number

to expand
805 2.5

To grow larger in size, amount, or importance

Phrasal Verbs

to slash spending
4 4.2

To cut the amount of money a person or group uses by a lot

Compounds

slash pocket
6.7

A small opening in clothes such as a jacket or pants for holding small things

How Drastic

to decimate
58 7.5
to slash
79 3.7
to cut
∞ 2.3
to reduce
∞ 1.6
to trim
95 2.6

Surface Forms

slash infinitive
slashed past
slashed past participle
slashing present participle
slashes third person singular

Etymology

Slash meaning 'to reduce a lot' uses the picture of a sharp cut. From the same idea of slá ('to strike' or 'to cut'), to slash spending is to cut it quickly and deeply.