Someone tried to 'slit' his throat. [=someone tried to kill him by cutting his throat]
She tried to 'slit her wrists'. [=to kill herself by cutting her wrists]
You could see through the 'slit' in the fence.
(..) be members of a cult. The male suspect was shot and killed as police arrived on scene... while the daughter was found in an apparent suicide, her throat slit open. One officer summed up these blood-soaked murders by saying: "In all my years, I have never seen anything quite as gruesome as this." (..)2014 Annabelle