Slitting

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something is slit.

    "[…] the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel, during which prostitutes in the poor areas of 1880s and 1890s London became the victims of an infamous string of throat slittings."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of slit form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"He applied a tourniquet before slitting his wrists."

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