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  • adjective Having gashes; slashed.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gash.

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Examples

  • A dagger point broke on the stout links of mail covering his right side, but a sword gashed his left arm.

    Conan the Avenger Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • Hendricks, quaking with shame and fear, sat shivering before his desk with jaws agape and the forged name gashed into his soul.

    A Certain Rich Man William Allen White 1906

  • On the other, he has written a history of how aerial bombing -- that most brutal and inexact of modern sciences -- was interpreted by contemporary poets and writers, from W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot to Virginia Woolf, who saw wide swaths of London "gashed" and "dismantled."

    Review of "Bomber Country," by Daniel Swift Post 2010

  • On the other, he has written a history of how aerial bombing -- that most brutal and inexact of modern sciences -- was interpreted by contemporary poets and writers, from W.H. Auden and T.S. Eliot to Virginia Woolf, who saw wide swaths of London "gashed" and "dismantled."

    Review of "Bomber Country," by Daniel Swift Post 2010

  • On the one hand, there's the firm's collaboration with Danish architect Bjarke Ingels to develop a daring gashed pyramid on the western terminus of 57th Street.

    At Apartment House, a Blend of the Old and the New Dana Rubinstein 2011

  • She allows it to just slightly graze her, severing the strand of pearls, which shower down onto the ground, and rending her garment to expose pure white skin gashed by scintillating fragments of light.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • "You want to attack, and if you try to attack in this defense and you running the Okie, you're going to look real bad and you're going to get gashed."

    Albert Haynesworth is happy with his role Rick Maese 2010

  • Everyone ends up with knocked-out teeth, gashed lips, and broken bones.

    I want to join Fight Club | Johnny B. Truant 2010

  • Wake Forest will start true freshman Tanner Price at quarterback and has a youthful defense that has been gashed in recent weeks.

    Pick 'em: Wake Forest at Virginia Tech Mark Giannotto 2010

  • Detectives never found the rude female passenger at whom he had allegedly directed his P.A. tirade, and who he said gashed his head with a piece of luggage.

    Sorry for Rough Landing Tamer El-Ghobashy 2010

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