GASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gash mean? 

• GASH (noun)
  The noun GASH has 3 senses:

1. a wound made by cutting

2. a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

3. a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

  Familiarity information: GASH used as a noun is uncommon.

• GASH (verb)
  The verb GASH has 1 sense:

1. cut open

  Familiarity information: GASH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wound made by cutting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cut; gash; slash; slice

Context example:

he put a bandage over the cut

Hypernyms ("gash" is a kind of...):

lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))

Derivation:

gash (cut open)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cut; gash

Hypernyms ("gash" is a kind of...):

furrow (a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gash; slash

Hypernyms ("gash" is a kind of...):

cut; cutting (the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge)

Derivation:

gash (cut open)

• GASH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gash    ... he / she / it gashes   
Past simple: gashed   
Past participle: gashed   
-ing form: gashing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cut open

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

gash; slash

Context example:

she slashed her wrists

Hypernyms (to "gash" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They will gash the duet

Derivation:

gash (a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument)

gash (a wound made by cutting)

 Context examples 

I ran back for a light and there was the poor fellow, a great gash in his throat and the whole place swimming in blood.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had already, in spite of the rain, taken off his overcoat in order to do his delicate task, and so, as he fell, his knife gashed his thigh.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So close was it that the point ripped a gash in the jutting edge of his linen cyclas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under his direction I cut such gashes in the sides of the trees as would ensure that it should fall as we desired.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sight seemed to paralyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face, merely making a deep gash above the forehead.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Scott, who had been patting White Fang, suddenly bent closer and pointed out fresh-made cuts on his muzzle, and a gash between the eyes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Pivoting on his hind legs, and snapping and gashing, he was everywhere at once, presenting a front which was apparently unbroken so swiftly did he whirl and guard from side to side.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I picture myself coming downstairs in the morning, and looking through a long ghastly gash of a staircase window at the school-bell hanging on the top of an out-house with a weathercock above it; and dreading the time when it shall ring J.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Then it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the centre of the little area of light.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His shirt had been ripped entirely from him in the struggle, and blood from a gash in the cheek was flowing down his naked chest, marking a red path across his white thigh and dripping to the floor.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)