gauze

Speech parts

1. gauze - Noun

2. gauze - Adjective

3. gauze - Verb

Meaning

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

netting veiling gauze bandage marly film coat lint challis gossamer cast web tissue covering filter membrane
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Antonyms

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Hypernyms

network cotton net mesh meshing meshwork

Hyponyms

gossamer cheesecloth petrolatum gauze

Phrases with the word

gauze lamp gauze-type gauze weave

Anagrams

ugeza

Examples

They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead

Small Mabel whimpered all night long, For calling herself the cause. Her oak-eyed mother did no thing But change the bloody gauze. Gwendolyn Brooks

A match as a pen Blood on the floor as ink The forgotten gauze cover as paper But what should I write? I might just manage my address. This ink is strange; it clots. I write you from a prison in Greece. Alexandros Panagoulis

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern. Oscar Wilde

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. Pat Conroy

A small amount of evidence did not find benefit from packing the abscess with gauze. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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