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Hurt vs Gash - What's the difference?

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Hurt is a related term of gash.


As verbs the difference between hurt and gash

is that hurt is to be painful while gash is to make a deep, long cut, to slash.

As nouns the difference between hurt and gash

is that hurt is an emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience) while gash is a deep cut.

As an adjective hurt

is wounded, physically injured.

hurt

English

Verb

  • To be painful.
  • Does your leg still hurt ? / It is starting to feel better.
  • To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
  • If anybody hurts my little brother I will get upset.
  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
  • To undermine, impede, or damage.
  • This latest gaffe hurts the MP's reelection prospects still further.

    Synonyms

    * wound, injure

    Derived terms

    * wouldn't hurt a fly

    See also

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wounded, physically injured.
  • Pained.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience)
  • * How to overcome old hurts of the past
  • (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
  • * 1605 , Shakespeare, King Lear vii
  • I have received a hurt .
  • * John Locke
  • The pains of sickness and hurts all men feel.
  • (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm
  • * Shakespeare
  • Thou dost me yet but little hurt .
  • (heraldiccharge) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
  • (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
  • A husk.
  • References

    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.
  • Anagrams

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