English Explanatory Dictionary

slite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To slit; tear or rip up.
  2. To wear away (clothes).
noun
  1. The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.

Pronunciation

/slaɪt/

Word forms

slite slites sliting slit slited slitten sleight slight slyte

Etymology

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.

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