Gash
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English
Noun
Gash (plural gashes)- A deep cut.
- 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:
- Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
- 2006, New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [1]:
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy
- (slang, offensive) A woman
- (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
- (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
- (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.
Verb
Gash (third-person singular simple present gashes, present participle gashing, simple past and past participle gashed)
Adjectives for Gash
deep; ghastly; fearful; fatal; abominable; hideous; deadly; murderous; bloody.
Adverbs for Gash
mortally; deeply; fatally; abominably; hideously; murderously; fearfully; savagely; fiendishly; diabolically.
Thesaurus
Vandyke, abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, amputate, arroyo, ax, bark, bezel, birthmark, bisect, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, bloody, blotch, bones, box canyon, brand, breach, break, burn, butcher, canal, canalize, canyon, carve, caste mark, cavity, chafe, chaff, chalk, chalk up, chamfer, channel, chap, chase, chasm, check, check off, checkmark, chimney, chink, chip, chisel, chop, cicatrix, cicatrize, claw, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, concussion, corrugate, corrugation, coulee, couloir, crack, crackle, cranny, craze, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crevasse, crevice, crimp, culm, cut, cut apart, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cwm, dado, dapple, dash, deadwood, defile, define, delimit, dell, demarcate, depression, dichotomize, dike, discolor, discoloration, dishwater, dissever, ditch, donga, dot, draff, draw, dregs, dust, earmark, engrave, engraving, excavation, excise, fault, filings, fissure, flash burn, flaw, fleck, flick, flume, flute, fluting, fracture, fray, frazzle, freckle, fret, furrow, gall, gap, gape, garbage, goffer, gorge, gouge, graving, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halve, hatch, hew, hogwash, hole, hurt, husks, impress, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation, injure, injury, jag, jigsaw, jog, joggle, joint, jot, kerf, kloof, knurl, lacerate, laceration, lance, leak, leavings, lees, lentigo, lesion, line, machicolate, macula, maim, make a mark, make mincemeat of, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, maul, microgroove, mill, moat, mole, mortal wound, mottle, mutilate, mutilation, nevus, nick, nip, nock, notch, nullah, offal, offscourings, open, opening, orts, pare, parings, pass, passage, patch, pencil, pepper, picot, pierce, pink, pleat, plow, point, polka dot, potsherds, prick, print, prune, punch, punctuate, puncture, rabbet, rags, raspings, ravine, refuse, rend, rent, riddle, rifle, rifling, rift, rime, rip, rive, ruck, run, rupture, rut, savage, saw, scald, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, scissor, scissure, scorch, score, scotch, scourings, scrap iron, scrape, scraps, scratch, scratching, scuff, scum, seal, seam, second-degree burn, serrate, sever, shards, shavings, skin, slack, slag, slash, slice, slit, slop, slops, slot, snip, sore, speck, speckle, splash, split, splotch, spot, sprain, stab, stab wound, stain, stamp, stick, stigma, stigmatize, strain, strawberry mark, streak, stria, striate, striation, stripe, stubble, sulcation, sulcus, sunder, sweepings, swill, tares, tattoo, tattoo mark, tear, third-degree burn, tick, tick off, tittle, tooth, trace, trauma, traumatize, trench, trough, underline, underscore, valley, void, wadi, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, watermark, weeds, well-worn groove, whittle, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrinkle
Etymology
From an alteration of Middle English garsen < Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer) < Vulgar Latin *charaxāre < Ancient Greek charássein ("to scratch, notch").
