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What is the noun for slashing?

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slash

A slashing action or motion, particularly:

A swift, broad, cutting stroke made by an edged weapon or whip.
(cricket) A wild swinging strike of the bat.
(ice hockey) A hard swift lateral strike with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
Any similar wide striking motion.
(figuratively) A sharp reduction.

A mark made by a slashing motion, particularly:

A cut or laceration, often deep, made by an edged weapon or whip.
(botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.

Something resembling such a mark, particularly:

(fashion) A slit in an outer garment exposing a lining or inner garment, usually of a contrasting color or design; any intentional long vertical cut in a garment.
(US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, (particularly) those made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
(originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩, sometimes (often proscribed) inclusive of any mark produced by a similar slashing movement of the pen, as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
(vulgar, slang) Female genitalia.

(US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash, (particularly forestry) the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
Clipping of slash fiction: fan fiction focused upon "shipping", or pairing, characters.
Synonyms:

gash, slit, laceration, cut, incision, rip, rent, tear, hack, score, injury, wound, scratch, cleft, hole, nick, puncture, split, graze, notch, opening, gouge, mark, chip, trauma, abrasion, scrape, cleavage, break, fissure, snick, groove, perforation, contusion, stab, breach, mutilation, bruise, lesion, sore, damage, crack, gap, chink, nip, rift, crevice, traumatism, rupture, kerf … more

Examples:

“Pushing her black hair out of her face, she caught a glimpse of the ruby-red slash across her right forearm.”

“Place a slash between the words to separate them.”

slasher

One who slashes.
A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
(informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence. A slasher movie
One who self-injures by cutting.
A tool for cutting undergrowth.
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Examples:

“Even by the generally lax standards of plausibility employed in slasher films, this one's off the charts.”

“By the late '80s I'd dare say that the whole slasher film genre had pretty much burned itself out.”

“Does every sorority slasher flick have to assault our ears with the negligible talents of a really lousy frathouse party band?”

slashing

stabbing, spearing, impalation, impaling, jabbing, skewering, impalement, lancing, bayonetting, goring, knife attack, piercing, puncturing, puncture, pricking, prick, incision, stab, thrust, pinprick, jab, perforation, riddling, spiking, entrance, sticking, probing, transfixing, entry, transfixion, tapping, drilling, boring, punching, penetration, ingress, forcing, insertion, thrusting, laceration, butchery, cut, gash, injury, slash, tear, wound, wounding, cleaving, cutting … more

slash

(Britain) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
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Examples:

“Pushing her black hair out of her face, she caught a glimpse of the ruby-red slash across her right forearm.”

“Place a slash between the words to separate them.”

slash

(obsolete, rare) A drink of something; a draft.
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Examples:

“Pushing her black hair out of her face, she caught a glimpse of the ruby-red slash across her right forearm.”

“Place a slash between the words to separate them.”

slash

(US) A swampy area; a swamp.
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Examples:

“Pushing her black hair out of her face, she caught a glimpse of the ruby-red slash across her right forearm.”

“Place a slash between the words to separate them.”

slashings

plural of slashing
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slashers

plural of slasher
Synonyms:

slasher movies, gorefests, horror films, slasher films, slasher flicks, attackers, assaulters, foes, assailants, enemies, aggressors, bushwhackers, invaders, muggers, raiders, strikers, intruders, killers … more

Examples:

“Once considered an adventurous shopping experience, these price slashers are now in easy proximity to the suburban jungle.”

“Ubiquitous through the rest of Canada, full-tree systems with their skidders and slashers are more rare in Newfoundland than hot summer days.”

“It stayed that way for a decade, using bunchers, skidders, delimbers and slashers to bring ready-to-saw material out of the bush.”

slashes

plural of slash
Synonyms:

gashes, slits, lacerations, cuts, incision, rips, rent, tears, hacks, scores, injury, wounds, scratches, clefts, holes, splits, punctures, nicks, grazes, chips, marks, gouges, notches, openings, cleavage, traumas, mutilation, contusions, stabs, abrasions, fissures, breaches, snicks, grooves, perforation, breaks, scrapes, kerfs, damage, sores, traumatisms, lesions, bruises, nips, crevices, rupture, crack, gaps, rifts, chinks … more

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