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gash n. 1 cut, slash, wound, score, cleft, incision, laceration,
slit, groove, split: The chisel slipped, cutting a deep gash in
the table.
--v. 2 cut, slash, wound, score, cleave, incise, lacerate,
slit, groove, split: I've gashed my hand on a rusty nail.
gasp v. 1 pant, gulp for air, fight for air or breath; catch one's
breath, snort, huff, puff: I gasped when I saw the condition of
the room.
--n. 2 snort, puff, blow, gulp, wheeze: He gave a gasp of
horror.
gate n. 1 gateway, barrier, doorway, door, access, entrance, exit,
passage, opening: The garden gate sagged on its hinges. 2
admissions, attendance, crowd, audience, assemblage: We had the
biggest gate of the year at yesterday's game.
gather v. 1 collect, assemble, accumulate, amass, muster, heap or pile
(up), garner, pick, harvest, glean, get or bring together,
stockpile, stock: I gathered all the firewood I could find. 2
collect, assemble, convene, meet, huddle, forgather or
foregather, get or come together, congregate, turn out, flock or
herd (together), group, cluster, throng, crowd, swarm, rally:
We gathered round the old man's bed. 3 purse, shirr, pucker,
tuck, ruffle, pleat, draw or pull together, contract, constrict:
The fabric is gathered at the waist. 4 draw, conclude, infer,
assume, deduce, understand, learn, hear, be led to believe: I
gather that you'd prefer not to collect the award in person. 5
increase, grow, enlarge, expand, extend, wax, heighten, deepen,
intensify, build, rise: He stood, menacingly, in the gathering
shadows.
gathering n. assembly, convocation, convention, congress, assemblage,
meeting, get-together, turnout, conclave, rally, aggregation:
There is a gathering of the clan once a year.
gaudy adj. garish, flashy, glaring, tawdry, loud, cheap, florid,
showy, ostentatious, raffish, vulgar, crude, tasteless,
Brummagem, meretricious, tinselly, gimcrack, shoddy, trashy,
Brit tatty, US and Canadian honky-tonk, Colloq US tacky,