2syllables
slicing
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Definitions ofslicing
1verb
- To cut into slices.
Example: "Slice the cheese thinly."
- To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
Example: "The knife left sliced his arm."
- To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
1noun
- The action of the verb to slice.
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