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--n. 4 cut, gash, incision, slit, slice, gouge, rent, rip,
score, laceration: There is a slash in each sleeve that reveals
the colourful fabric underneath. 5 cut, reduction, decrease,
mark-down: The department stores continued their price slashes
to the end of January.
slattern n. slut, tramp, sloven, trollop, hussy, wanton, whore,
prostitute, harlot, streetwalker, lady of the evening, woman of
ill repute, loose or fallen woman, trottoise, Colloq call-girl,
pro, Slang tart, hooker, hustler, US roundheels, bimbo: His
reputation will not be enhanced if he associates with slatterns.
slaughter n. 1 butchery, butchering, Rare abattage: Most of the cattle
were sent for slaughter. 2 massacre, killing, bloodshed, blood
bath, murder, homicide, manslaughter, carnage, extermination,
execution, liquidation, slaying, blood-letting, butchery,
pogrom, genocide, mass murder or execution or extermination,
sacrifice, hecatomb: 1930 to 1945 saw the slaughter of millions
in Europe and the Far East.
--v. 3 butcher, kill, murder, slay, execute, exterminate,
massacre, put to the sword, put to death, liquidate, destroy:
How many more must be slaughtered before war is made obsolete?
4 defeat, beat, win (out) over, vanquish, overcome, overwhelm,
smash, crush, thrash, destroy, rout, upset, trounce, Colloq
clobber: Our school soccer team slaughtered the visitors 10--0.
slave n. 1 lackey or lacquey, scullion, serf, slave-girl, slaveling,
odalisque or odalisk, bondservant, bondslave, bondsman or
bondman, bondswoman or bondwoman, bondmaid, vassal, Derogatory
chiefly Brit skivvy, Archaic esne, helot, hierodule, Colloq Brit
slavey: In ancient times, captured peoples and those of lower
social status were kept as slaves. 2 drudge, workhorse, hack,
grind, toiler, labourer, Chiefly Brit fag, dogsbody, Colloq US
gofer: Susan was a slave to her job for years, only to be
sacked without a pension by the new owners.
--v. 3 labour, toil, moil, grind, grub, drudge, sweat, burn the
midnight oil, lucubrate, work one's fingers to the bone, work
like a Trojan or a horse, Brit skivvy: He was slaving over an
essay that was due the following morning.
slaver° v. 1 drool, salivate, slobber, drivel, dribble, spit, Dialect