(v. t.) To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
(v. t.) To lash; to ply the whip to.
(v. t.) To crack or snap, as a whip.
(v. i.) To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
(n.) A long cut; a cut made at random.
(n.) A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
(n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
(2) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
(3) But in April, this was reduced to 70% as ministers tried to slash the welfare bill.
(4) We write to deplore the coalition's withdrawal of support from the hugely successful school sport partnerships (" Michael Gove's plan to slash sports funding in schools splits cabinet ", News).
(5) It’s just one piece of New York’s air quality strategy, which also aims at slashing greenhouse gas emissions 80% from 2005 levels by 2050, says Mark Chambers, director of the mayor’s Office of Sustainability.
(6) It’s clear from our time in government that the Tories target will be slashing support for families.
(7) Perhaps an independent Scotland would offer a restrained alternative to Westminster's current slash and burn.
(8) The energy and climate change secretary, Ed Miliband, said the new policy balanced three challenges: the need to ensure the security of the UK's energy supply, the need to build a low-carbon economy and the need to slash greenhouse gas emissions.
(9) Forrest noted Fortescue’s rivals Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton had a break-even price of about US$30 a tonne, and the latter announced plans on Tuesday to slash costs at its WA iron ore mines to US$16 a tonne.
(10) The company this week announced it would attempt to slash wages at its Australian manufacturing plants.
(11) That line in the accounts reveals that costs were slashed by 32%, or £2m, to £4.3m – without which the company would have booked another loss.
(12) A leading thinktank has forecast that Britain will remain mired in recession this year, and slashed growth forecasts for almost all members of the G7 group of leading industrial nations.
(13) Detainees have seen their time allowed outside cells slashed, and been forced to undergo humiliating body cavity searches if they want to speak to lawyers, it has been claimed.
(14) Unlike many music hack days, this is a commercial contest: the winning hack – as judged by Slash, BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and investor Ben Parr – will earn its creator an autographed guitar, $1,000 and “the chance to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album”.
(15) Payet was at it again before Zaza and Antonio slashed at a couple of other presentable chances.
(16) At the same time, local authorities are being offered cash to approve house building, but the budget for affordable housing has been slashed by 50%.
(17) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
(18) As a result, today it is slashing the cost of a Sky+ HD box by two-thirds to £49.
(19) Ofcom has slashed the £20m-plus per year cost of ITV and Channel 5 regional broadcasting licences to almost zero, in recognition of the cost of delivering public service obligations such as news and current affairs.
(20) But within North Rhine-Westphalia – which includes the cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, Essen, and the industrial Ruhr region – it would appear that the CDU's arguments that the state needed to make sacrifices to slash its €180bn (£144bn) debt backfired.
Swampy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
(2) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.
(3) A cross-sectional survey on the pattern of causes of death and the age- specific mortality rate were carried out in 11 villages in the lowland swampy area of South Sumatra in September 1984.
(4) The UN has rushed troops to Jonglei, an isolated and swampy state with limited mud roads that are often impassable for months during heavy rains.
(5) Lee , 63, faced the electorate for the first time without his popular father, who ruled for three decades as premier and is credited with transforming the swampy island into a regional financial hub.
(6) 1 of 4 mothers in 11 villages in a plain, lowland swampy area of south Sumatra was interviewed in September 1984 concerning practices in managing diarrhea in the past and any diarrheal attack which had occurred during the last 2 weeks in their children under age 5.
(7) On Sunday a full-scale tank battle was being fought between opposing factions in the South's army in the far western reaches of oil-rich, swampy Upper Nile.
(8) The world’s largest fast food chain also said it would not source commodities from peatlands, or swampy areas that store a lot of carbon and can end up contributing to greenhouse gas emissions when disturbed.
(9) Around 50 years ago, Singapore was little more than an impoverished swampy island with 1.6 million inhabitants and virtually no natural resources.
(10) For the control of Oncomelania quadrasi, environmental modifications, i.e., clearing of vegetation, leveling of swampy depression and draining of stagnant water by channeling and excavation were carried out at 3 areas in Leyte, Philippines from 1974 to 1977.
(11) The localities investigated were swampy environments and scant human cases of cutaneous leishmaniasis have been notified there.
(12) He said the land had been swampy with shallow water.
(13) His Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force pushed oil prices to record highs in 2004 with attacks and threats against production in the delta’s swampy creeks.
(14) I’m on the edge of swampy, fog-shrouded Fox Tor Mire, which was the inspiration for Grimpen Mire in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s book The Hound of the Baskervilles.
(15) amongst populations of the coastal-lowland-swampy-shrubland zone of the country, particularly during the dry season which stretches from October through March.
(16) This song is a moment of joy in a record where swampy depths reign.
(17) There are now just 200 asylum seekers in the detention centre on swampy, tropical Manus Island in northern PNG, which was established in 2001 as part of former prime minister John Howard’s “Pacific Solution”.
(18) It can be found in plains, low altitudes, swampy places, and paddy fields.
(19) Two jobseekers, who did not want to be identified in case they lost their benefits, later told the Guardian that they had to camp under London bridge overnight, to change into security gear in public, had no access to toilets for 24 hours, and were taken to a swampy campsite outside London after working a 14-hour shift in the pouring rain on the banks of the Thames on Sunday.
(20) Two jobseekers, who did not want to be identified in case they lost their benefits, told the Guardian that they had to camp under London bridge overnight, to change into security gear in public, had no access to toilets for 24 hours, and were taken to a swampy campsite outside London after working a 14-hour shift in the pouring rain on the banks of the Thames on Sunday.