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gash (gas̸h)

transitive verb

to make a long, deep cut in; slash

Etymology: earlier garse < ME garsen < OFr garser < VL *charassare < Gr charassein, to cut, engrave

noun

a long, deep cut

Etymology: ME garse < OFr

gash Synonyms

gash

n.

slash, slice, wound; see cut 2.

gash Usage Examples

Object

  • knee: She had not even noticed that her knee cap was visible through her gashed knee!
  • head: For deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head?
  • shin: James Thomas is definitely out with a gashed shin.
  • foot: Walter Boyd's recovery from a gashed foot allowed captain Nick Cusack to resume normal midfield duties against Brentford.

Converse of object

  • sustain: In the fall she sustained a deep gash to the left knee.
  • suffer: Julian Sills - suffered a gash just above his left eye on Saturday.
  • have: My son, despite having an impressive gash on his back was young enough for his baby tetanus vaccine to still be valid.
  • make: It was generally applied to a cut or gash made by the boot or teeth of a hog.
  • cut: Quarries that cut great gashes in the hillside look romantic a hundred years after the workings are abandoned.
  • see: I remember how I came here, and saw the gash in the Earth, slicing through the old tracks.

Adjective modifier

  • nasty: Our man is bleeding from a nasty gash in his head.
  • bloody: AGENT STEDMAN lies dead, a large bloody gash in his forehead.
  • deep: Indeed, apart from a deep gash to a cheek, all visible wounds were of the skinned knees variety.
  • huge: Looking down he could just make out a huge gash in his shin, from which he was rapidly loosing blood.
  • long: A long shallow gash, no longer bleed ing, was just above the elbow.
  • large: The large gash in her hull was repaired by means of a wooden " scow " invented by the New York engineer Edward Renwick.

Modifying Another Word

badly: Thom played just 45 minutes of the match at Rochdale on Saturday before coming off with a badly gashed leg.

Noun used with modifier

tension: Actually rock crystals, they occur in the tension gashes that can be seen in the Devonian sandstone cliffs at various localities.

Preposition: in

  • hillside: There was another gert to the right and so hoping to lose the rider he darted into the yawning gash in the hillside.
  • earth: The Rift Valley, a great gash in the Earth 's crust, cuts across the country.

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