Noun

• S: (n) cut, gash, slash, slice (a wound made by cutting) "he put a bandage over the cut"
• S: (n) slash (an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind))
• S: (n) solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix (a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) punctuation, punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)
• S: (n) ampersand (a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and))
• S: (n) apostrophe (the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word)
• S: (n) brace (either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material)
• S: (n) bracket, square bracket (either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material)
• S: (n) bracket, angle bracket (either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material)
• S: (n) colon (a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter))
• S: (n) comma (a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence)
• S: (n) exclamation mark, exclamation point (a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation)
• S: (n) hyphen, dash (a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text)
• S: (n) parenthesis (either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material)
• S: (n) period, point, full stop, stop, full point (a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations) "in England they call a period a stop"
• S: (n) question mark, interrogation point (a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question)
• S: (n) quotation mark, quote, inverted comma (a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else)
• S: (n) semicolon (a punctuation mark (`;') used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period)
• S: (n) solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix (a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information)
• S: (n) swung dash (a punctuation mark used in text to indicate the omission of a word)
• S: (n) slash, gash (a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument)

Verb

• S: (v) slash, cut down (cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete)
• S: (v) flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce (beat severely with a whip or rod) "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
• S: (v) slash, gash (cut open) "she slashed her wrists"
• S: (v) slash (cut drastically) "Prices were slashed"
• S: (v) convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate (move or stir about violently) "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"