gash

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

gash, v. t. [For older garth or garse, OF. garser to scarify, F. gercer to chap, perh. from an assumed LL. carptiare, fr. L. carpere, carptum, to pluck, separate into parts; cf. LL. carptare to wound. Cf. Carpet.].

 To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; -- applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.  [1913 Webster]
"Grievously gashed or gored to death."  [1913 Webster]

gash, n. 

 A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gash, n. & v.
--n.
1 a long and deep slash, cut, or wound.
2 a a cleft such as might be made by a slashing cut. b the act of making such a cut.
--v.tr. make a gash in; cut.

gash, adj. Brit. sl. spare, extra.

Etymology

20th-c. Naut. sl.: orig. unkn.

THESAURUS

gash

Vandyke, abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, amputate, arroyo, ax, bark, bezel, birthmark, bisect, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, bloody, blotch, bones, box canyon, brand, breach, break, burn, butcher, canal, canalize, canyon, carve, caste mark, cavity, chafe, chaff, chalk, chalk up, chamfer, channel, chap, chase, chasm, check, check off, checkmark, chimney, chink, chip, chisel, chop, cicatrix, cicatrize, claw, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, concussion, corrugate, corrugation, coulee, couloir, crack, crackle, cranny, craze, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crevasse, crevice, crimp, culm, cut, cut apart, cut away, cut in two, cut off, cwm, dado, dapple, dash, deadwood, defile, define, delimit, dell, demarcate, depression, dichotomize, dike, discolor, discoloration, dishwater, dissever, ditch, donga, dot, draff, draw, dregs, dust, earmark, engrave, engraving, excavation, excise, fault, filings, fissure, flash burn, flaw, fleck, flick, flume, flute, fluting, fracture, fray, frazzle, freckle, fret, furrow, gall, gap, gape, garbage, goffer, gorge, gouge, graving, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hack, halve, hatch, hew, hogwash, hole, hurt, husks, impress, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation, injure, injury, jag, jigsaw, jog, joggle, joint, jot, kerf, kloof, knurl, lacerate, laceration, lance, leak, leavings, lees, lentigo, lesion, line, machicolate, macula, maim, make a mark, make mincemeat of, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, maul, microgroove, mill, moat, mole, mortal wound, mottle, mutilate, mutilation, nevus, nick, nip, nock, notch, nullah, offal, offscourings, open, opening, orts, pare, parings, pass, passage, patch, pencil, pepper, picot, pierce, pink, pleat, plow, point, polka dot, potsherds, prick, print, prune, punch, punctuate, puncture, rabbet, rags, raspings, ravine, refuse, rend, rent, riddle, rifle, rifling, rift, rime, rip, rive, ruck, run, rupture, rut, savage, saw, scald, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, scissor, scissure, scorch, score, scotch, scourings, scrap iron, scrape, scraps, scratch, scratching, scuff, scum, seal, seam, second-degree burn, serrate, sever, shards, shavings, skin, slack, slag, slash, slice, slit, slop, slops, slot, snip, sore, speck, speckle, splash, split, splotch, spot, sprain, stab, stab wound, stain, stamp, stick, stigma, stigmatize, strain, strawberry mark, streak, stria, striate, striation, stripe, stubble, sulcation, sulcus, sunder, sweepings, swill, tares, tattoo, tattoo mark, tear, third-degree burn, tick, tick off, tittle, tooth, trace, trauma, traumatize, trench, trough, underline, underscore, valley, void, wadi, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, watermark, weeds, well-worn groove, whittle, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench, wrinkle

ROGET THESAURUS

gash

Evil

N evil, ill, harm, hurt, mischief, nuisance, machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to, blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation, mortal blow, wound, immedicabile vulnus, damage, loss, disadvantage, prejudice, drawback, disaster, accident, casualty, mishap, bad job, devil to pay, calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy, ruin, adversity, mental suffering, demon, (Evil spirit) bane, (cause of evil), badness, (Production of Evil), painfulness, evil doer, outrage, wrong, injury, foul play, bad turn, ill turn, disservice, spoliation, grievance, crying evil, disastrous, bad, awry, out of joint, disadvantageous, amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost, moving accidents by flood and field.

Disjunction

VB be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.