Gauze

/ɡɔːz/ · noun

Meaning

A thin fabric with a loose, open weave..

Definitions by Sense

1. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
2. (medicine) A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
3. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
4. Ellipsis of wire gauze
5. Mist or haze
6. (transitive) To apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.
7. (ambitransitive, literary) To mist; to make or become gauze-like.

Example Sentences

“I can’t wrap up any dog’s foot now. There’s some gauze in the bathroom, go get it and do it yourself.”

The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly.

I gauzed the deep cuts and gashes.

The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.

It had come to be six o’clock; midges gauzed the air.

Then a film of chemical vapour seems to drift around the city, fudging every edge, gauzing every vista.

I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.

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Word Forms

• gauzes
• gause
• gauzing
• gauzed

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