slit1 verbslit2 noun
slitslit1 /slɪt/ verb (past tense and past participle slit, present participle slitting) [transitive] 
VERB TABLE
slit
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | slit |
| he, she, it | slits | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | slit |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have slit |
| he, she, it | has slit | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had slit |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will slit |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have slit |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am slitting |
| he, she, it | is slitting | |
| you, we, they | are slitting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was slitting |
| you, we, they | were slitting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been slitting |
| he, she, it | has been slitting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been slitting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be slitting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been slitting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Diane slit the envelope open with a knife.
- Graham slit his wrists in a suicide attempt.
- He killed the goat by slitting its throat.
- Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists.
- He felt his neck for the vein he had slit countless times before.
- I slit along the seam of the cardboard wrapper where it had been taped over.
- If it slit one of my arteries, that would be the end of all my problems.
- It even gets a touch gory when Russell comes over all Rambo and starts slitting throats.
- Newspapers and television implore us to slit all the candy open to ensure that it contains no foreign body.
THESAURUS
to divide something into two or more pieces, especially using a knife or scissors: · Do you want me to cut the cake?· He cut off the lower branches.
to quickly cut something, especially using scissors: · I snipped the label off.· The hairdresser snipped away at her hair.
to make a long narrow cut through something, especially using a knife: · He slit the envelope open with a penknife.· She slit through the plastic covering.
to cut something quickly and violently with a knife, making a long thin cut: · Someone had slashed the tyres on his car.· He tried to slash his wrists.
to cut wood, using a saw (=a tool with a row of sharp points): · Saw the wood to the correct length.
to cut wood, vegetables, or meat into pieces: · Bill was outside chopping up firewood with an axe.· They chopped down the old tree.· finely chopped onion
to cut bread, meat, or vegetables into thin pieces: · I’ll slice the cucumber.· Slice the bread thinly.
to cut vegetables or meat into small square pieces: · First dice the apple into cubes.
to cut cheese or a hard vegetable by rubbing it against a special tool: · Grate the cheese and sprinkle it over the vegetables.
to cut the outside part off something such as a potato or apple: · I peeled the potatoes and put them in a saucepan.
to cut thin pieces from a large piece of meat: · Uncle Ray carved the turkey.
to cut the grass in a garden, park etc: · A gardener was mowing the lawn.
(also clip) to cut a small amount off something, especially to make it look neater: · He was trimming his beard.· Trim the excess fat off the meat.
Longman Language Activatorwith scissors, a knife, or a sharp object to divide something into two or more pieces, using a knife or scissors: · He cut the string and carefully unwrapped the parcel.cut something in two/cut something in half: · Mandy cut the paper in half and gave a piece to each child.cut something up/cut up something (=into several pieces): · Tommy sat on the floor, cutting up old magazines.cut something open/cut open something: · Rescue workers had to use special equipment to cut open the steel doors.
to cut something with scissors using quick small cuts: · She snipped the thread which held the two pieces of cloth together .
to make a long narrow cut through something, especially skin or cloth: · He killed the goat by slitting its throat.slit something open/slit open something: · Diane slit the envelope open with a knife.slit your wrists: · Graham slit his wrists in a suicide attempt.
to cut something quickly and violently with a knife, because you want to damage it or cause an injury : · The painting had been slashed with a knife.· Someone had slashed the tyres on Bayle's car.slash your wrists: · She slashed her wrists with a razor blade.
to push a knife into someone's body in order to kill or seriously injure them: · Betty Carroll was stabbed 61 times and left to die on the floor of her Escondido home.stab somebody in the heart/arm etc: · Luca stabbed her in the thigh with a breadknife.stab somebody to death (=kill someone by attacking them a knife): · Kitty Davison was found stabbed to death one night in 1997.
to cut something very roughly or violently: hack at something: · He picked up an axe and began hacking at the door.hack somebody to death: · All of the victims had been hacked to death.hack somebody/something to pieces: · The two women were hacked to pieces by their attackers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Guy slit open the envelope.
to make a straight narrow cut in cloth, paper, skin etc: Guy slit open the envelope. (=kill someone by cutting their throat)
(=try to kill yourself by cutting your wrists)
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=open it by cutting it)· I quickly slit open the envelope.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· At the start of every season, the club used to slaughter a sheep on the pitch by slitting its throat.· The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena, where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other's throats.· He was standing at the window of an empty compartment, laughing, as he made the gesture of slitting his throat.· It even gets a touch gory when Russell comes over all Rambo and starts slitting throats.· Gregory, 20, denies murdering Marion Rilka, 51, by slitting her throat in a robbery attempt at her home.
· It couldn't be Emma, could it, with some ghastly news about Cindy Hill slitting her wrists or something?· Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists.
Guy slit open the envelope.slit somebody’s throat (=kill someone by cutting their throat)slit your wrists (=try to kill yourself by cutting your wrists)► see thesaurus at cutslit1 verbslit2 noun
slitslit2 noun [countable] a long straight narrow cut or hole: light shining through a slit in the door a skirt with a slit up the side