The word 'gash' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is primarily used as a noun and can be defined as a deep, long wound or cut on the skin. It can also be used as a verb, meaning to make a deep wound or cut. Example: The hiker stumbled and fell, resulting in a large gash on her knee that required stitches. In this sentence, 'gash' is used as a noun to describe the type of injury the hiker sustained.
Environmentalists are concerned that ships navigating reef passageways – many of which are narrower than the English Channel – will run aground, as a Chinese vessel did in 2010, tearing a two-mile gash into the coral and spilling several tonnes of oil.
For the Great Barrier Reef, though, the world's most famous and largest coral reef system, a final decision passed down today gives us another gash, through which could rush millions of tonnes of coal.
This roving reporter spotted at least one semi-serious casualty in the first aid tent nursing a deep, weeping gash on her forehead.
Strong light created hard contrasts, turning the riverbank into a black gash.
I watch Kaieteur shrink into the distance, a gash on the earth's surface, its rainbow still visible.
That special place between a woman's legs has been a "Heavenly Gate" to Chinese Taoists, and a "gash" or worse in contemporary slang.
NEAR the centre of Sumatra, an Indonesian island once blanketed by forest, a gash in the ground reveals the wealth that lies just beneath its surface.
"They would then gash the neck with a machete to bleed the child slowly to death but, while they were still alive, they would cut off the private parts and throw them at the faces of the terrified parents who would then be murdered with slightly greater dispatch .On April 7th Rwandans will mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide sombrely and peacefully.
The blow opened a huge horizontal gash into the back of his head picture a slit you could post an envelope through.
Apart from a gash to the head, the body showed no evidence of broken bones or ruptured organs.
