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🔪 A deep cut 🔪 To cut deeply
to gash

to gash

5 4.2
To cut something deeply, often by accident
  • verb
  • /ɡæʃ/
translation icon : lacerar
  • On the next drive, Fitzpatrick and Chandler gashed the Pats up the middle of the defense.
  • gashed my leg
  • gashed his head
  • gashed my arm

Examples

  • A few minutes later, the Buffaloes gashed Washington State again for an 84-yard touchdown run.

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  • Teams that have stayed patient against this Panthers front have been able to gash them for touchdowns and large gains.

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  • Baylor got beat over the top time and again, and Texas got gashed by our running game.

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  • The Cats need to get to Summerlin on the edges and not get gashed up the middle by Truss.

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  • The 49ers opened the game with three straight runs that saw Frank Gore thoroughly gashing the Cardinals' defensive front.

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  • While chopping vegetables, I accidentally gashed my finger with the knife.

  • The child fell while playing and gashed his knee on the sharp edge of the sidewalk.

  • He gashed his hand when he broke the glass by accident.

Synonyms

to wound
vsto gash
617 2.3

To cut or hurt someone's body physically

is specifically a long deep cut rather than any physical injury
to slash
vsto gash
53 3.0

To cut forcefully with a knife or sharp tool

is often accidental rather than done forcefully on purpose
to lacerate
vsto gash
  • NSFW
9 7.5

To cut or tear skin roughly

focuses on a long deep cut that is often accidental
to gouge out
vsto gash
5 7.4

To make a deep cut or groove in a surface by scraping

is usually an accidental deep cut rather than a scraped groove

Antonyms

to heal
481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

How Deep

to lacerate
  • NSFW
9 7.5
to gash
5 4.2
to slash
53 3.0
cut
1.0
to nick
33 3.5

Surface Forms

gash infinitive
gashed past
gashed past participle
gashing present participle
gashes third person singular

Etymology

The word gash probably comes from an old short word that meant 'to cut' or 'wound'. So, to gash something is to make a sudden, long, deep cut, often by accident.