Decrease and Slash

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

slash

A wound made by cutting.
- usage: "he put a bandage over the cut"
- synonyms: cut, gash, slice
An open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind. )
A punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information.
- synonyms: solidus, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix
A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument.
- synonyms: gash

Cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete.
- synonyms: cut down
Beat severely with a whip or rod.
- usage: "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced"
- synonyms: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, strap, trounce
Cut open.
- usage: "she slashed her wrists"
- synonyms: gash
Cut drastically.
- usage: "Prices were slashed"
Move or stir about violently.
- usage: "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed"
- synonyms: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, toss, jactitate

(n.) A opening or gap in a forest made by wind, fire or other destructive agency.
(v.t.) To lash; to ply the whip to.
(v.t.) To crack or snap, as a whip.
(v.t.) To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
(v.i.) To strike violently and at random, especially with an edged instrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cut hastily and carelessly.
(n.) Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes.
(n.) A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings.
(n.) A long cut; a cut made at random.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary