slite

Pronunciation: /slaɪt/

The English word “slite” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

To slit; tear or rip up.
To wear away (clothes).

noun

The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.

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”),…

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