Thesaurus results for GASH

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verb

Definition of gash

as in to slit

to penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife) her face had been gashed by the rocks as she tumbled down the embankment

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gash

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noun

ˈgash

as in slit

a long deep cut got a gash in his knee that required four stitches

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Recent Examples of gash

Verb

Walker ran for 103 yards with the Seahawks against the Broncos in the 2024 season opener, gashing Denver for more than 80 yards in the third quarter alone. — Jesse Newell, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 With Miami’s inability to stop the run, the Raiders were able to gash the Dolphins in the play action. — Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2026

Noun

Rapper Lucki was allegedly involved in a fight at ComplexCon in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, leaving him with a gash on his neck, according to videos on social media. — Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 The disbelief at billowing black smoke from a gash in the Pentagon and collapsing skyscrapers of steel, the dread over what attacks might yet come, the hope that people might be pulled from the rubble alive. — Ann Gerhart, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gash

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gash

Verb

Bevins, sung by the tenor Jonah Hoskins, is a young gay man who slit his wrists after being jilted by a lover.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
Afterward, Lindsay slit her wrists and neck, then jumped out of a second-story window.

— Selena Barrientos, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of slit

Noun

Like Linda, other community members wiped tears from their faces and embraced one another as photos and videos of Noel appeared on a stage screen.

— Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Oct. 2026
By Monday, the girl who cried all those tears on her guitar will be both the youngest woman to be inducted into the Songwriters Hall, and youngest-member of the Nashville edition.

— Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of tear

Verb

Greece's prime minister rejected a maritime agreement between Libya and Turkey, which slices ownership of part of the eastern Mediterranean Sea between the two countries.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2026
The Lakers went to sleep in the second quarter and started to get cooked by the Warriors, watching their big lead get sliced to 53-53 at the half.

— Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of slice

Noun

Officers arrived to find a man with minor lacerations and detained Manfre on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, the knife.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
While her condition stabilized after the attack, Doctors treated her for a traumatic brain injury, brain bleed and multiple deep lacerations that required extensive stitches.

— Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of laceration

Verb

He's covered some of the biggest events throughout the city and our region, from the death of Freddie Gray, to mass shootings in Harford County, to the EF-2 tornado that ripped through the Eastern Shore.

— CBS News, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
But after Vucic conceded defeat Sunday evening, ecstatic young revelers filled the streets of Belgrade and ripped down the cordons around the encampment known as Caciland.

— JOVANA GEC, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of rip

Verb

Butner slashed $30,000 off his asking price, but that generated only one offer, which fell through.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
The bill slashed Medicaid funding by $1 trillion over the next 10 years, in part through new work and eligibility requirements.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of slash

Verb

While these tracks are endearing enough, Way Dynamic’s real magic sits at the juncture of folk and forlornness, when Young’s guitar is allowed to ramble and his regrets are sharp enough to bruise.

— Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026
To bruise or wrinkle easily, in his thinking, is not necessarily a defect.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026