How to pronounce “gashes” in English

such as abortion. So, I can see that, for instance, this is--let me bring my wand here-- this is a really, really long article that goes on forever, but the interesting thinghere is that I have these black gashes, right, on the visualization. And what this means is that, at some point, the entire article was deleted, basically. Someone just vandalizedthe page and just deleted the entire article, ok? And then eventually it gets reverted to what it is was back. Over here someone, on top of deleting the whole thing, said, "Abortion