slite

Meanings

Verb

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

Noun

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

Origin

• 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-.
• 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").