gashed

past tense of gash

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gashed
Verb
  • In another incident that month, a train conductor was slashed in the neck.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • So much so that movement speeds of loads (up or down) were slashed by 85% compared to common-or-garden backpacks.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • But the Hawks’ present-day problems ripped them right back into the here and now.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025
  • Milton’s hurricane-force winds ripped trees from already soggy soils, but its historic rain also flooded neighborhoods that had never experienced waters so high.
    Jack Prator, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The prospect of trying to cut open a stubborn 5-4-1 block in the Orlando heat could have become torturous quite quickly.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 28 June 2025
  • According to a report on Bloomberg, MSFT is planning to cut thousands of jobs in its Xbox gaming division.
    MoneyShow, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • The mountain is a troll’s hat that was pierced by an arrow following a grand chase; when the sun rose, all the trolls involved in the spectacle and those watching it—plus the punctured hat—turned to stone forever, forming Torghatten and the striking array of other peaks in the region.
    Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 9 Apr. 2025
  • My first arrow had pierced his rib cage and then ripped through to lodge in a shoulder blade.
    Ray Alt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Two people were stabbed at a transit station in Queens, with one of them dying, and a woman was set on fire and died on a subway car in Brooklyn.
    Jack Birle, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Hernandez-Velasco, 32, was rushed to Stamford Hospital after he was stabbed at a party, cops said.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 23 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Then, the family members would drag their victim to a hidden cellar on the property and slit the victim’s throat, leaving them there to die.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 June 2025
  • In April 2006, Stanko, 57, beat and strangled girlfriend Laura Ling to death and raped her teenage daughter and slit her throat.
    Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
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“Gashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gashed. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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