verb/ɡa.ʃe/
to ruin, spoil, mar, wreck, waste; to mess up, botch, bungle
Inherited from Middle French gascher (“to waste, ruin; row (with oars)”), from Old French gaschier, gacher, gasser (“to soil, spoil, waste”) and Old French gaschier, guaschier, waschier (“to wash, soak”), both from Old Dutch *wascon, *wascan (“to wash, bathe”), from Frankish *waskan (“to wash”), from Proto-Germanic *waskaną (“to wash”), from Proto-Indo-European *wod- (“wet”). Compare related Italian guazzare (“to splash, wallow”), from the same Germanic root. Cognate with Old English wasċan (“to