gashing
Making deep cuts
Gashing is cutting or slashing something to create a deep wound or opening.
The word typically describes violent or accidental injuries: He gashed his knee on the rocks, The broken glass gashed her arm.
It can apply to surfaces too: The collision left the hull gashed and taking on water.
laceration
Torn, ragged wound
gaping · bleeding · deep · flesh · skin · injury · severing · ripping · slicing · jagged
slashing
Cutting with force
ripping · clawing · stabbing · hacking · cleaving · swiping · mauling · shredding · scoring · carving
scoring
Earning points in competition
- scratchingRaking with nails
- gougingExploitative overpricing
- marringCausing damage or disfigurement
scarring · furrowing · grooving · nicking · etching · defacing · damaging · scraping · striating · channeling
- bodily harmhurt, injure, wound, harm, injuries
- breaking downsplitting, fragmenting, dividing, breaking up, partitioning
- fabric damageripping, shredding, fraying, unraveling, tattering