Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.
- n. A long deep cut.
- n. A deep flesh wound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A deep cut.
- n. A vulva, pussy
- n. A woman
- n. Rubbish, spare kit
- n. Rubbish on board an aircraft
- n. Unused film or sound during film editing
- n. Poor quality beer, usually watered down.
- v. To make a deep, long cut, to slash.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.
- transitive v. To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make a long deep incision in, as flesh; cut deeply into the flesh of: as, to gash a person's cheek.
- Shrewd; sagacious; having the appearance of sagacity joined with that of self-importance.
- Lively and fluent in discourse; talkative.
- Trim; well dressed.
- To converse; gossip; tattle; gush.
- n. An incision or cut, relatively long and deep; particularly, a cut in flesh; a slash.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- n. a wound made by cutting
- v. cut open
- n. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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With the Vietnam Memorial, you created what you call a gash or a rift in the landscape.
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That gash is frickin 'unreal - looked like a great PPV.
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Pop has a long cut on his chin, the jagged edge like a gash from a bone saw.
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A gash from a tomahawk disfigured his head; the woolly hair was matted with blood.
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The boy didn't appear to be concussed, but the gash was a deep one that would leave an unsightly scar if not stitched well.
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Running water of any temperature over the gash was agonizing.
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One preternaturally long bony hand, a length of severed rope dangling from the wrist, clutched with clawed fingers at a sword gash in chain mail stained with dried blood.
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Monty was alive, but in spite of what Gloria could do the dark blood was welling out from a sword gash on his right side, and we had not a surgeon within miles of us.
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Monty was alive, but in spite of what Gloria could do the dark blood was welling out from a sword gash on his right side, and we had not
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A large sword gash in his side, which had been sewed up, but from which the blood continually oozed, was the obvious cause of his present condition, and, to all human appearance, his death warrant.
Eoneguski, or, the Cherokee Chief: A Tale of Past Wars. Vol. I.
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