Definitions for gauze

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Spelling: [gawz]

IPA: /gɔz/

Gauze is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in gauze (aeguz).

Definitions for gauze

noun

1. any thin and often transparent fabric made from any fiber in a plain or leno weave.
2. a surgical dressing of loosely woven cotton.
3. any material made of an open, meshlike weave, as of wire.
4. a thin haze.

Origin of gauze

First recorded in 1555-65, gauze is from the French word gaze

Examples for gauze

When gauze is combined with plain weaving it is styled “leno.”

With that idea, I took off the gauze which covered my features.

Using tape and gauze, he then tried to plug the holes in that leg.

The more we try to look through the gauze, the more it all begins to look like gauze.

She hailed the happy thought and invested in countless yards of gauze.

Put the bandages and gauze away, and get ready to enjoy oysters for their ease rather than their challenge.

Let her go as Ariel, all gauze, flesh-tints, and natural curves.

Wrap in a strip of gauze or cheesecloth and place in a steamer.

His head had emerged slowly, month by month, from swathings of gauze.

There was further, in the wonderful box, an old remnant of gauze.