slashing

Adj.

1.

slashing - as if striking with slashing blows; "his slashing demon-ridden cadenza"

abscission, acid, amputation, biting, burr, butchering, chiseling, chopping, cleavage, corrosive, cross-hatching, cutting, demitint, dichotomy, driving, effective, engravement, engraving, enucleation, etch, etching, excision, fission, forceful, forcible, gem-engraving, glass-cutting, glyptic, graving, gutsy, half tint, hatching, imperative, impressive, incision, incisive, inscript, inscription, laceration, line, lining, marking, mordant, mutilation, nervous, penetrating, piercing, poignant, powerful, punchy, rending, resection, ripping, scission, score, scoring, scratch, scratching, section, sensational, severance, sinewed, sinewy, slash, slicing, splitting, stipple, stippling, striking, strong, surgery, tearing, telling, tint, tooling, trenchant, type-cutting, vigorous, vital