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gouge (go̵uj)

noun

  1. a chisel with a curved, hollowed blade, for cutting grooves or holes in wood
    1. an act of gouging
    2. the groove or hole made by gouging
  2. any deep groove or hole that is considered a blemish
  3. Informal an act of overcharging or cheating of money; extortion or swindle

Etymology: ME < OFr < VL gubia, for LL gulbia < Celt (as in OIr gulban, goad, thorn) < IE base *gelebh-, to scrape, hollow out > Gr glaphein, to carve

transitive verb gouged, goug·ing

  1. to make a groove, hole, etc. in (something) with or as with a gouge
  2. to scoop out; dig or force out to gouge out dirt
  3. ☆ in fighting, to push one's thumb into the eye of
  4. Informal to cheat out of money, etc.; also, to overcharge

gouge Related Forms
gouger noun
gouge Synonyms

gouge

v.

  1. To hollow out

    scoop, chisel, channel; see dig 1.

  2. *To obtain illegally or immorally

    blackmail, take advantage, extort; see steal.

gouge Usage Examples

Followed by a transitive particle

  • away: This gouges away the surrounding GRP and, over time, the axle migrates downwards driven by the weight of the centreplate.

Object

  • eye: He had gouged the eye out of the third, for some trifling difference of opinion.
  • consumer: The nation's economy gouge consumers even will be cordless.
  • valley: It must have been nearly three o'clock when we reached a narrow valley gouged between high, vertical walls and located 150 meters down.
  • part: This value refers to how much a toolpath is allowed to gouge the part.
  • riverbed: With god-like powers, you sculpt mountains, gouge riverbeds, and seed forests to lay the groundwork for your creation.
  • mark: I managed to gouge the mark of Zorro into it during a night exercise on my final phase one TA training weekend.

Preposition: in

  • wall: This resulted in several evenly spaced ( but not full depth ) gouges in the steel wall of the pipeline.

Modifying Another Word

  • out: Roughing out gouge ( or roughing gouge ) Used in spindle turning for reducing square stock to round section.
  • not: No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out.
  • straight: This is attached to a ¼ " No. 6 straight gouge: crossbred offspring of an icepick and an ill-tempered letter opener.

Particle object:

  • valley: The stream running down the valley from the car park is obviously too small to have gouged out this wide valley.

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