gouge

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; something, as a glove, thrown down as a challenge to fight: The knight threw down his gage.; a variety of plum, as a greengagegauge – a measuring device; to test; a size: twelve-gauge shotguns; the fineness of knitted fabric: sixty-gauge stockings

gougeleft to right: hollow, parting, and fluting gouges

gouge

G0206900 (gouj)n.1. A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.2. a. A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.b. A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.3. Informal A large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted.tr.v. gouged, goug·ing, goug·es 1. To cut or scoop out with or as if with a gouge: "He began to gouge a small pattern in the sand with his cane" (Vladimir Nabokov).2. a. To force out the eye of (a person) with one's thumb.b. To thrust one's thumb into the eye of.3. Informal To extort from.4. Slang To swindle.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin gubia, variant of gulbia, of Celtic origin.]

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goug′er n.

gouge

(ɡaʊdʒ) vb (mainly tr) 1. (usually foll by out) to scoop or force (something) out of its position, esp with the fingers or a pointed instrument2. (sometimes foll by out) to cut (a hole or groove) in (something) with a sharp instrument or tool3. informal US and Canadian to extort from4. (Mining & Quarrying) (also intr) Austral to dig for (opal)n5. (Tools) a type of chisel with a blade that has a concavo-convex section6. a mark or groove made with, or as if with, a gouge7. (Geological Science) geology a fine deposit of rock fragments, esp clay, occurring between the walls of a fault or mineral vein8. informal US and Canadian extortion; swindling[C15: from French, from Late Latin gulbia a chisel, of Celtic origin]

gouge

(gaʊdʒ)

n., v. gouged, goug•ing. n. 1. a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side. 2. an act of gouging. 3. a hole made by gouging. 4. an act of extortion; swindle. 5. a. a layer of decomposed rocks or minerals found along the walls of a vein. b. fragments of rock that have accumulated between or along the walls of a fault. v.t. 6. to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge. 7. to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge (often fol. by out). 8. to make a gouge in: to gouge one's leg. 9. to extort from or overcharge. v.i. 10. to engage in extortion or swindling. [1300–50; < Middle French < Late Latin gu(l)bia, perhaps < Celtic; compare Old Irish gulba sting, Welsh gylf beak, Cornish gilb borer] goug′er, n.

gouge

Past participle: gouged
Gerund: gouging

Imperative
gouge
gouge

Present
I gouge
you gouge
he/she/it gouges
we gouge
you gouge
they gouge

Preterite
I gouged
you gouged
he/she/it gouged
we gouged
you gouged
they gouged

Present Continuous
I am gouging
you are gouging
he/she/it is gouging
we are gouging
you are gouging
they are gouging

Present Perfect
I have gouged
you have gouged
he/she/it has gouged
we have gouged
you have gouged
they have gouged

Past Continuous
I was gouging
you were gouging
he/she/it was gouging
we were gouging
you were gouging
they were gouging

Past Perfect
I had gouged
you had gouged
he/she/it had gouged
we had gouged
you had gouged
they had gouged

Future
I will gouge
you will gouge
he/she/it will gouge
we will gouge
you will gouge
they will gouge

Future Perfect
I will have gouged
you will have gouged
he/she/it will have gouged
we will have gouged
you will have gouged
they will have gouged

Future Continuous
I will be gouging
you will be gouging
he/she/it will be gouging
we will be gouging
you will be gouging
they will be gouging

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been gouging
you have been gouging
he/she/it has been gouging
we have been gouging
you have been gouging
they have been gouging

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been gouging
you will have been gouging
he/she/it will have been gouging
we will have been gouging
you will have been gouging
they will have been gouging

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been gouging
you had been gouging
he/she/it had been gouging
we had been gouging
you had been gouging
they had been gouging

Conditional
I would gouge
you would gouge
he/she/it would gouge
we would gouge
you would gouge
they would gouge

Past Conditional
I would have gouged
you would have gouged
he/she/it would have gouged
we would have gouged
you would have gouged
they would have gouged

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	gouge - an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)nick, ding, dentblemish, mar, defect - a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish"dig - a small gouge (as in the cover of a book); "the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover"
	2.	gouge - and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or groovesedge tool - any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge)
	3.	gouge - the act of gougingcreating by removal - the act of creating by removing something
Verb	1.	gouge - force with the thumb; "gouge out his eyes"force outmar, mutilate - destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies"gouge out - make gouges into a surface; "The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor"
	2.	gouge - obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"extort, wring, rack, squeezefleece, gazump, overcharge, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, hook, pluck - rip off; ask an unreasonable pricebleed - get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone; "They bled me dry--I have nothing left!"
	3.	gouge - make a groove inroutcore out, hollow out, hollow - remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"

gouge

verb1. scoop, cut, score, dig (out), scratch, hollow (out), claw, chisel, gash, incise quarries which have gouged great holes in the hillsnoun1. gash, cut, scratch, hollow, score, scoop, notch, groove, trench, furrow, incision iron-rimmed wheels digging great gouges into the road's surface

gouge

verbSlang. To exploit (another) by charging too much for something:fleece, overcharge.Slang: clip, nick, rip off, scalp, skin, soak.Idioms: make someone pay through the nose, take someone for a ride , take someone to the cleaners .

Translations

凿半圆凿挖出

gouge

(gaudʒ) verb1. to make (a groove or hole) with a tool. He gouged (out) a hole in the wood. 鑿 凿2. to take or force out. The tyrant gouged out the prisoner's eyes. 挖出 挖出 noun a type of chisel for making grooves etc. 半圓鑿 半圆凿