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Gash vs Affront - What's the difference?

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Gash is a related term of affront.


As nouns the difference between gash and affront

is that gash is a deep cut while affront is .

As a verb gash

is to make a deep, long cut, to slash.

gash

English

Noun

(gashes)
  • A deep cut.
  • * 2006 , New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?hp&ex=1158033600&en=e468f88da52557ed&ei=5094&partner=homepage]:
    • Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
  • (slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy
  • * 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:
    • “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
  • (slang, offensive) A woman
  • (slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit
  • (slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft
  • (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing
  • (slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To make a deep, long cut, to slash.

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    affront

    English

    (wikipedia affront)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To insult intentionally, especially openly.
  • * Addison
    • How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
  • To meet defiantly; to confront.
    • to affront death
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:
    • Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .
  • (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
  • * Holland
    • All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
  • * Shakespeare
    • That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
    • Such behavior is an affront to society.
  • (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

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