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transitive. To make a gash or gashes in (the flesh or some other material); to slash, to lacerate. Also intransitive and figurative.
transitive. To cut into, make a cut or incision in; to cut marks or figures upon, engrave with figures.
transitive. To make a cleft or incision in, gash.