[{"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to cut with a violent sweeping stroke or by striking violently and at random, as with a knife or sword.", "to lash; whip.", "to cut, reduce, or alter:The editors slashed the story to half its length.Synonyms: abbreviate , abridge", "to make slits in (a garment) to show an underlying fabric.", "to criticize, censure, or attack in a savage or cutting manner."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to lay about one with sharp, sweeping strokes; make one's way by cutting.", "to make a sweeping, cutting stroke."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a sweeping stroke, as with a knife, sword, or pen.", "a cut, wound, or mark made with such a stroke.", "a curtailment, reduction, or alteration:a drastic slash of prices.", "a decorative slit in a garment showing an underlying fabric.", "Compare forward slash(def) forward slash(def), backslash(def) backslash(def).a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur; a virgule :you and/or your dependents.a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule :She got 3/4 of the answers correct.“Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)", "a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur; a virgule :you and/or your dependents.", "a dividing line, as in dates, fractions, a run-in passage of poetry to show verse division, etc.; a virgule :She got 3/4 of the answers correct.“Sweetest love, I do not go/For weariness of thee.” (John Donne)", "(in forest land)an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.the debris itself.", "an open area strewn with debris of trees from felling or from wind or fire.", "the debris itself.", "Slang. slash fiction(def) slash fiction(def)."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Oftenslashes.a tract of wet or swampy ground overgrown with bushes or trees."]}]