gashing

The word “gashing” has 2 syllables: gash-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈɡæʃɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for gashing?

In the thesaurus, “gashing” has 38 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for gashing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for gashing

  • amputating
  • anatomizing
  • bruising
  • butchering
  • carving
  • chipping
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chopping
  • cleaving
  • crosscutting
  • cutting
  • cutting off
  • dicing
  • dissecting
  • hacking
  • hacksawing
  • haggling
  • incising
  • lacerating
  • mangling
  • mincing
  • notching
  • piercing
  • rending
  • ripping
  • riving
  • sawing
  • scissoring
  • sectioning
  • severing
  • shearing
  • slashing
  • slicing
  • slitting
  • splitting
  • stabbing
  • tearing

Meanings of gashing

  • verb
    1. To make a deep, long cut; to slash.
  • noun
    1. The act of making a gash, or cut.
    2. The roughing operation for worm gears.

Example Sentences

  • The sharp knife was gashing the surface of the wood as it was dragged across.
  • The accident left him gashing his arm on the broken glass.
  • The storm’s high winds were gashing through the trees, causing them to sway dangerously.
  • He could feel the pain from the gashing wound on his leg as he tried to walk.
  • The metal object was gashing through the paint, leaving deep scratches on the car.

On this page you'll find 38 synonyms or another words to gashing, such as: amputating, anatomizing, bruising, butchering, carving, chipping, chiseling.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

hacksawing

  • amputating
  • anatomizing
  • bruising
  • butchering
  • carving
  • chipping
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chopping
  • cleaving
  • crosscutting
  • cutting
  • cutting off
  • dicing
  • dissecting
  • gashing
  • hacking
  • haggling
  • incising
  • lacerating
  • mangling
  • mincing
  • notching
  • piercing
  • rending
  • ripping
  • riving
  • sawing
  • scissoring
  • sectioning
  • severing
  • shearing
  • slashing
  • slicing
  • slitting
  • splitting
  • stabbing
  • tearing

lacerating

  • amputating
  • anatomizing
  • bruising
  • butchering
  • carving
  • chipping
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chopping
  • clawlike
  • cleaving
  • crosscutting
  • cutting
  • cutting off
  • daggerlike
  • dicing
  • dissecting
  • edged
  • edgy
  • gashing
  • goring
  • ground
  • hacking
  • hacksawing
  • haggling
  • honed
  • incising
  • jabbing
  • jagged
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • mangling
  • mincing
  • notching
  • piercing
  • pointed
  • pointy
  • rending
  • ripping
  • riving
  • sawing
  • scissoring
  • scratching
  • sectioning
  • severing
  • sharp
  • sharpened
  • shearing
  • slashing
  • slicing
  • slitting
  • spikey
  • spiky
  • splitting
  • stabbing
  • stropped
  • tearing
  • trenchant
  • whetted
  • wounding

damaging

  • abusing
  • adverse
  • afflicting
  • aggrieving
  • annihilating
  • bad
  • baleful
  • baneful
  • banging up
  • bashing
  • battering
  • blemishing
  • blighting
  • bloodying
  • blowing out
  • botching
  • breaking
  • bruising
  • clobbering
  • compromising
  • contagious
  • contusing
  • crabbing
  • creasing
  • crippling
  • crushing
  • cutting
  • dangerous
  • dashing
  • deadly
  • decimating
  • defacing
  • deleterious
  • demolishing
  • denting
  • desolating
  • destroying
  • destructive
  • deteriorating
  • detrimental
  • devastating
  • dinging
  • dinting
  • disabling
  • disadvantageous
  • disfiguring
  • doing in
  • endamaging
  • enervating
  • enfeebling
  • eroding
  • evil
  • fatal
  • flawing
  • gashing
  • goring
  • grazing
  • hamstringing
  • harmful
  • harming
  • hazardous
  • hostile
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • ill
  • impairing
  • imperiling
  • imperilling
  • infectious
  • infective
  • inimical
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insidious
  • jeopardizing
  • killer
  • lacerating
  • laming
  • laying up
  • lethal
  • maiming
  • malignant
  • maltreating
  • mangling
  • marring
  • menacing
  • mischievous
  • mutilating
  • nasty
  • nicking
  • nocent
  • nocuous
  • noisome
  • noxious
  • ominous
  • parlous
  • perilous
  • pernicious
  • pestiferous
  • pestilent
  • pestilential
  • poisonous
  • prejudicial
  • pulverizing
  • queering
  • razing
  • risky
  • ruining
  • ruinous
  • scalding
  • scarring
  • scathing
  • scourging
  • scouring
  • scraping
  • shattering
  • sinister
  • smashing
  • spoiling
  • straining
  • tarnishing
  • tearing
  • tearing down
  • threatening
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • totaling
  • totalling
  • undermining
  • unfriendly
  • unhealthful
  • unhealthy
  • unsafe
  • unsound
  • unwholesome
  • venomous
  • vitiating
  • washing out
  • wasting
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wiping out
  • wounding
  • wrecking

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