Antonyms for gash


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


Definition of gash

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 :
  • You may make yourself as light as any gash balloon,' said Mrs Gamp.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • When his thoughts settled on the pain this gash caused him, he suffered cruelly.
  • Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
  • The gash in his skull must have reached his brain, for he had become a mere animal.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • He paused to breathe, and to survey the gash he had made in the side of the tree.
  • Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
  • He could move about now, and the gash in his head had ceased bleeding.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies » by Alice B. Emerson
  • She had one of those mouths that look exactly like a gash in the face.
  • Extract from : « Rudder Grange » by Frank R. Stockton
  • It was the sight of the gash in Brannan's fist that called him back to the business before him.
  • Extract from : « Under Fire » by Charles King
  • Fred could see blood oozing from a gash in the surgeon's lips.
  • Extract from : « The Monster » by S. M. Tenneshaw
  • With these it inflicts a gash as smooth as if cut with a razor.
  • Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • I was gash with fear, but I looked him in the face and took it smilingly.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of Raasay » by William MacLeod Raine

Synonyms for gash

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