gash

Meaning of gash

noun
  1. a long, deep cut or wound.
    a bad gash in one leg became infected
  2. a woman's vulva.
verb
  1. make a long, deep cut in.
    the jagged edges gashed their fingers

Middle English garse, from Old French garcer ‘to chap, crack’, perhaps based on Greek kharassein ‘sharpen, scratch, engrave’. The current spelling is recorded from the mid 16th century.

noun
  1. rubbish or waste.
    the gash bucket

1920s (originally in nautical use): of unknown origin.

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Hyphenation of gash

gash

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • gash is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

gash synonyms

Meaning cut:

cut, slash, slice

Meaning slash:

slash

Meaning a deep cut or tear in skin or flesh:

laceration

Meaning a hole or split in something caused by it having been pulled apart forcefully:

tear

Meaning a chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery:

gouge

Meaning a small hole in a tyre resulting in an escape of air:

puncture

Meaning a notch or line cut or scratched into a surface:

score

Meaning a mark or decoration cut into a surface:

incision

Meaning a long, narrow cut or opening:

slit

Meaning a tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain:

split

Meaning a long tear or cut:

rip

Meaning a tenant's regular payment to a landlord for the use of property or land:

rent

Meaning a small cut or notch:

nick

Meaning past and past participle of cleave1:

cleft

Meaning a mark or wound made by scratching:

scratch

Meaning an act or sound of scraping:

scrape

Meaning (of cattle, sheep, etc.) eat grass in a field:

graze

Meaning an area damaged by scraping or wearing away:

abrasion

Meaning an injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken:

wound

Meaning an instance of being injured:

injury

Meaning a region in an organ or tissue which has suffered damage through injury or disease, such as a wound, ulcer, abscess, or tumour:

lesion

Meaning a region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise:

contusion

Meaning a deeply distressing or disturbing experience:

trauma

Meaning a traumatic effect or condition:

traumatism

Meaning tear or make deep cuts in (flesh or skin):

lacerate

Meaning cut (skin or flesh) with a surgical instrument:

incise

Meaning tear (something) into pieces:

rend

Meaning cut a small notch or incision in (something):

snick

Meaning make notches in:

notch

Meaning split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain:

cleave

Meaning scrape or wear away by friction or erosion:

abrade

Meaning do physical harm or damage to (someone):

injure

Meaning cause pain or injury to:

hurt

Meaning inflict physical harm on (something) so as to impair its value, usefulness, or normal function:

damage

Meaning wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged:

maim

Anagrams of gash

hags, shag

Words that rhyme with gash

Lagash, Malagash, malagash, begash, Bangash, fogash

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