gash
noun
a long, deep wound or cut; slash.
were gashing
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past progressiveof gash.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In that first half, we felt like we were gashing them with the run.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2011
They came from the sisters and female relatives of Mahto-Tatonka, who were gashing their limbs with knives, and bewailing the death of Henry Chatillon's squaw.
From The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Parkman, Francis
