gash
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3.9
- noun
- /ɡæʃ/
- It had a huge gash in the side of it.
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Watch on YouTubeSo once you've self harmed, you've released, even on this blood day, big gash in your arm, you're like, you're right.
- So once you've self harmed, you've released, even on this blood day, big gash in your arm, you're like, you're right.
- Margie saw the deep head gashes, the drifting of his opened eyes, the healing arm and leg wounds.
- So elegant as might be seen at a concert at an opening, though on her cheek a small cut, a gash, a red cusp under the bone.
- It was a massive, massive gash that that's mainly where I was bleeding from and but I had no idea.
- It was she had large knife gashes that matched a knife that was found in the bedroom, a kitchen, a big chef's knife, a kitchen knife.
- It had a huge gash in the side of it.
Examples
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I sat beside Wutai and inspected the long gash down the back of my hand.
Fiction book (1991) -
The doctor stitched up the gash on his arm to prevent infection.
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Has a bad gash in his right arm and his leg is hurt.
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And now my my friend came in he had a gash on his nose.
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Looks like a cut or a gash in the sole of the shoe.
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In return, he caught a headbutt that opened a gash above his left eye.
Fiction book (1992) -
She had a large gash in the back of her head where she was hit in the head with a ball bat.
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That's a nasty gash you have here.
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The ax had left a big gash in his side just above his right hip.
Fiction book (1996) -
As Buffy strips down to her tank top, she notices a gash on her arm.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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1.0
A wound where the skin is opened by something sharp
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7.7
A deep cut in the skin or flesh with rough, torn edges
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3.6
A long deep cut made by a sharp object
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3.7
A wound that only affects the skin and soft parts of the body, not organs or bones
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5.1
A cut in the skin made by a sharp object
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7.0
A deep cut or scratch in a surface made by a sharp object
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Etymology
The word gash comes from the same old word for 'cut' or 'wound'. That's why a gash is a long, deep cut or wound you can see on skin, a surface, or in the land.