gash Definition
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 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

