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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