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slite

/slaɪt/

slite verb: to slit; tear or rip up.

Verb

slite (third-person singular simple present slites, present participle sliting, simple past slit or slited, past participle slit or slited or slitten)

  1. (dialectal, transitive) To slit; tear or rip up.
  2. (dialectal, transitive) To wear away (clothes).

Noun

slite (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.

Forms of slite

third-person singular presentslites
present participlesliting
pastslit
pastslited
past participleslit
past participleslited
past participleslitten
alternative formsleight
alternative formslight
alternative formslyte

Origin of slite

From Middle English sliten, from Old English slītan (“to slit, tear, rend, shiver, split, rend to pieces, cleave, divide”), from Proto-West Germanic *slītan, from Proto-Germanic *slītaną (“to tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *skleyd-, *(s)kelH- (“to cut, trim”). Cognate with North Frisian slitten (“to clear, make void”), Dutch slijten (“to wear, waste, ravel out”), German schleißen (“to trim”), Swedish slita (“to rip, tear”). Doublet of slit. More at slice.

Words that rhyme with slite

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Questions about slite

What does slite mean?
Slite means to slit; tear or rip up.
What part of speech is slite?
Slite can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce slite?
Slite is pronounced /slaɪt/.
What is the past tense of slite?
The past tense of slite is slit.

Words near slite in the dictionary

  1. slit-gongs
  2. slit-scan
  3. slit-shell
  4. slit-shells
  5. slitch
  6. slite
  7. slited
  8. Sliter
  9. Sliters
  10. slites
  11. slither

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