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GASH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gash mean?
• GASH (noun)
The noun GASH has 3 senses:
2. a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
3. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
Familiarity information: GASH used as a noun is uncommon.
• GASH (verb)
The verb GASH has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GASH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wound made by cutting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Context example:
he put a bandage over the cut
Hypernyms ("gash" is a kind of...):
lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))
Derivation:
gash (cut open)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
cut; gash
Hypernyms ("gash" is a kind of...):
furrow (a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
gash; slash
Hypernyms ("gash" is a kind of...):
cut; cutting (the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge)
Derivation:
gash (cut open)
Conjugation: |




Past simple: gashed


Past participle: gashed


-ing form: gashing


Sense 1
Meaning:
Cut open
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
gash; slash
Context example:
she slashed her wrists
Hypernyms (to "gash" is one way to...):
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They will gash the duet
Derivation:
gash (a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument)
gash (a wound made by cutting)
Context examples
I ran back for a light and there was the poor fellow, a great gash in his throat and the whole place swimming in blood.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had already, in spite of the rain, taken off his overcoat in order to do his delicate task, and so, as he fell, his knife gashed his thigh.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So close was it that the point ripped a gash in the jutting edge of his linen cyclas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Under his direction I cut such gashes in the sides of the trees as would ensure that it should fall as we desired.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The sight seemed to paralyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, merely making a deep gash above the forehead.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Scott, who had been patting White Fang, suddenly bent closer and pointed out fresh-made cuts on his muzzle, and a gash between the eyes.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Pivoting on his hind legs, and snapping and gashing, he was everywhere at once, presenting a front which was apparently unbroken so swiftly did he whirl and guard from side to side.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I picture myself coming downstairs in the morning, and looking through a long ghastly gash of a staircase window at the school-bell hanging on the top of an out-house with a weathercock above it; and dreading the time when it shall ring J.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Then it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the centre of the little area of light.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His shirt had been ripped entirely from him in the struggle, and blood from a gash in the cheek was flowing down his naked chest, marking a red path across his white thigh and dripping to the floor.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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