slitting

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slitting

  1. present participle and gerund of slit

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slitting (plural slittings)

  1. The act by which something is slit.
    • 2011, Paula Leverage, Theory of Mind and Literature, page 94:
      [] 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.

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