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Antonyms for gashes

Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : gash
Phonetic Transcription : gæʃ


Definition of gashes

Origin :
  • 1540s, from Middle English garce (early 13c.), from Old North French garser "to scarify, cut, slash" (Old French *garse), apparently from Vulgar Latin *charassare, from Greek kharassein "engrave," from PIE *gher- "to scrape, scratch" (cf. character). Loss of -r- is characteristic (see ass (n.2)). Slang use for "vulva" dates to mid-1700s.
  • noun cut made by slicing
  • verb cut by slicing
Example sentences :
  • Some troubles ain't no more 'n a dull pain, an' some are like cuts an' gashes.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • He smiled his close-lipped smile that made wrinkles like gashes in his cheeks.
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Cuts, gashes, and bruises are the frequent experience of smacksmen.
  • Extract from : « The Young Trawler » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • The leg is good cut in gashes, and filled with a dressing, and baked.
  • Extract from : « The American Housewife » by Anonymous
  • All had been scalped, and the bodies were mutilated with gashes of the tomahawks.
  • Extract from : « Captain Bayley's Heir: » by G. A. Henty
  • My heart is one huge wound, from the gashes she has cut in it.
  • Extract from : « Jack » by Alphonse Daudet
  • They whooped her awful and rubbed salt and pepper in the gashes, and another man stood by handed her a hoe.
  • Extract from : « Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 » by Work Projects Administration
  • The little fruit-trees had been felled, or lay half-fallen with gashes in their sides.
  • Extract from : « A Company of Tanks » by W. H. L. Watson
  • Has the gladiator no parents whom he feeds with that blood which flows from his gashes?
  • Extract from : « Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870 » by Various
  • There were hideous welts and gashes and half-healed scars all over his body.
  • Extract from : « The Revolt of the Star Men » by Raymond Gallun

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