Fray
Fray verb - To damage or diminish by continued friction.
Slash
Slash verb - To penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife).
Common collocations
| rope | fray rope | slash rope |
Both words in one sentence
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While tied to chairs, Rell gets Keanu to slash and bite at the ropes on his hands to fray them enough to break free, by whispering the key phrase he used to train Keanu to destroy photographs of his ex-girlfriend.
Source: Film / Keanu
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