gash

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Thankfully, the track is only 4.7 seconds from the high school so I jumped in the car not having any idea if the gash was as bad as hubby made it sound.

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  1. transitive verb To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.
  2. noun A long deep cut.
  3. noun A deep flesh wound.

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  • We are locked in an abandoned mine located where the canyon narrows to a gash--a place called the Red Llama's Throat Most of the time, there is no guard around. —  012 - The Man Who Shook The Earth
  • But the bottom of the gash was originally too rough for a landing field The upshot of it was that they took the money from the diamonds they had already found, and hired a gang of thugs. —  007 - The Lost Oasis
  • And the gash was heading directly towards my lover's tree I watched the men toiling below. —  Robin Hobb
  • Higgins fist had cut him over his left eye, and the blood leaking from the gash was becoming a problem for him. —  AHMM,December2007
  • Happy bears the marks of Timbo's fangs in his tender hide—this torn ear, that spot on his flank where the gash is healing. —  Asimov'sSF,September2007
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

slash ·  bruise ·  welt ·  laceration ·  wound ·  scar ·  furrow ·  slit ·  incision ·  scratch ·  fang ·  scrape

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gash:   gashes
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Alteration of Middle English garsen, to scarify, from Old North French garser, from Late Latin charaxāre, to scratch, engrave, from Greek kharassein.

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  1. A corruption of an older garsh, which, again, stands for orig. garse, from Middle English garse, garce, gerse, a gash, incision, scarification, from garsen, garcen, gaarcyn, gash, scarify, from Old French garser, scarify (cf. later garscher, chap, as the hands or lips; cf. Middle Latin garsa, scarification); perhaps ult. from Greek χαράσσ, σ1ειν, furrow, scratch: see character.
  2. Earlier garsh, garse, from Middle English garse, garce, gerse; from the verb.
  3. Scots; supposed to be an abbreviation of French sagace, from Latin sagax, sagacious: see sagacious.
  4. from gash, a., 2.
 

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