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slash

verb as in cut

verb as in reduce greatly

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Combined with last week’s cuts, however, the overall outcome would skew blue with funding slashed in 486 Democratic districts compared with 160 Republican ones.

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In early September, House Republicans proposed slashing more than $5 billion from the $18.4 billion earmarked for Title I, putting at risk reading and math teachers, tutors and classroom technology.

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Another boy, 18, says he started carrying a knife into school after being attacked and slashed on the hand by another pupil.

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Mr Musk slashed Twitter's workforce by more than half.

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Scouting is among the areas where numbers have been slashed.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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