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    gouge
    [ɡouj]
    verb
    gouge (verb) · gouges (third person present) · gouged (past tense) · gouged (past participle) · gouging (present participle)
    1. make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as with a sharp tool or blade:
      "the channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water"
      • make a rough hole or indentation in (a surface), especially so as to mar or disfigure it:
        "he had wielded the blade inexpertly, gouging the grass in several places"
      • (gouge something out)
        cut or force something out roughly or brutally:
        "one of his eyes had been gouged out"
    2. NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
      overcharge; swindle:
      "the airline ends up gouging the very passengers it is supposed to assist"
    noun
    gouge (noun) · gouges (plural noun)
    1. a chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery.
    2. an indentation or groove made by gouging.
    Origin
    late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin gubia, gulbia, perhaps of Celtic origin; compare with Old Irish gulba ‘beak’ and Welsh gylf ‘beak, pointed instrument’.
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    verb
    1. make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as with a sharp tool or blade:
      scoop out
      burrow (out)
      hollow out
      hack (out)
      chisel (out)
      scrape (out)
      claw (out)
      scratch (out)
       
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    1. Gouge is a verb that means to make a hole or cut in something with a sharp object in a rough or violent way12. For example, a lion's claws can gouge a wound in another animal's side, or someone can gouge a hole in wood using a knife.
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      Define gouge. gouge synonyms, gouge pronunciation, gouge translation, English dictionary definition of gouge. a chisel with a rounded blade; a digging or scooping action: to gouge a channel; to gouge holes Not to be confused with: gage – a security or a pledge;...
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      Definition of gouge verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary gouge something (in something) to make a hole or cut in something with a sharp object in a rough or violent way The lion's claws had gouged a wound in the horse's side. He gouged a hole in the wood with a knife.
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