From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slash \Slash\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Slashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slashing}.] [OE. slaschen, of uncertain origin; cf. OF. esclachier to break, esclechier, esclichier, to break, and E. slate, slice, slit, verb (used with an object)]
1. To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
2. To lash; to ply the whip to. [R.] --King.
3. To crack or snap, as a whip. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "slashing": abscission, acid, amputation, biting, burr, butchering, chiseling, chopping, cleavage, corrosive, cross-hatching, cutting, demitint, dichotomy, driving, effective, engravement, engraving, enucleation, etch, etching, excision, fission, forceful, forcible, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, gutsy, half tint, hatching, imperative, impressive, incision, incisive, inscript, inscription, laceration, line, lining, marking, mordant, mutilation, nervous, penetrating, piercing, poignant, powerful, punchy, rending, resection, ripping, scission, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, section, sensational, severance, sinewed, sinewy, slash, slicing, splitting, stipple, stippling, striking, strong, surgery, tearing, telling, tint, tooling, trenchant, type-cutting, vigorous, vital
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