I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slit open an envelope (= open it by cutting it )
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I quickly slit open the envelope.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
throat
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At the start of every season, the club used to slaughter a sheep on the pitch by slitting its throat .
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The international airline business is a fiercely combative arena, where competitors enjoy nothing more than slitting each other's throats .
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He was standing at the window of an empty compartment, laughing, as he made the gesture of slitting his throat .
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It even gets a touch gory when Russell comes over all Rambo and starts slitting throats .
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Gregory, 20, denies murdering Marion Rilka, 51, by slitting her throat in a robbery attempt at her home.
wrist
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It couldn't be Emma, could it, with some ghastly news about Cindy Hill slitting her wrists or something?
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Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Diane slit the envelope open with a knife.
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Graham slit his wrists in a suicide attempt.
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He killed the goat by slitting its throat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Before I knew what I was doing I was slitting my wrists.
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He felt his neck for the vein he had slit countless times before.
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I slit along the seam of the cardboard wrapper where it had been taped over.
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If it slit one of my arteries, that would be the end of all my problems.
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It even gets a touch gory when Russell comes over all Rambo and starts slitting throats.
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Newspapers and television implore us to slit all the candy open to ensure that it contains no foreign body.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I covered my eyes with my hands, watching through the slits between my fingers.
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Tania's skirt has a long slit up the back.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All three drivers jumped down, each adjusting his muffler to make a narrow slit across his eyes.
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As the roller is drawn over the skin, hairs are trapped in the slits and plucked out.
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But there are also various types of measurement that one could perform at the slits, other than position measurements.
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Rosie has a long nose, a short upper lip, eyes that she pencils into narrow, suspicious-looking slits.
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The two buildings come together at an angle that narrows to merely a slit .
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Trim some of the fat from the beef and cut tiny slits all over the surface.