slice
/slaɪs/ verb B2- To cut into slices. · Slice the cheese thinly.
- To cut with an edge using a drawing motion. · 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.
He/she/it slices · Past sliced · Past participle sliced · -ing form slicing
Verb forms
- Base form
- slice
- He/she/it
- slices
- Past
- sliced
- Past participle
- sliced
- -ing form
- slicing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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An apple and a slice of cake;'--
Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,
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