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Swashed vs Slashed - What's the difference?

swashed | slashed |

As verbs the difference between swashed and slashed

is that swashed is (swash) while slashed is (slash).

As an adjective slashed is

having been slashed, cut or rent.

swashed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swash)
  • Anagrams

    *

    swash

    English

    Noun

  • The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
  • (typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
  • A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
  • (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
  • (obsolete) A blustering noise.
  • (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
  • (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
  • (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
  • (Moxon)
    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To swagger; to bluster and brag.
  • To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  • *1851 ,
  • How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
  • To fall violently or noisily.
  • (Holinshed)

    See also

    * swashbuckler * swash letter

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.
  • (Pegge)

    Anagrams

    *

    slashed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having been slashed, cut or rent
  • Having a slash
  • Derived terms

    * slashed zero

    Verb

    (head)
  • (slash)
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