Definition of gouge in English:

gouge

noun ɡuːdʒɡaʊdʒɡaʊdʒ

1A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery.
Example sentencesExamples
- Eighteenth-century tools are very hard to come by, presumably because over the years they have been sharpened into oblivion, so most of Webb's gouges date to the nineteenth century.
- The new find consists of six axes, two knives (one with textile remains, perhaps from a sack), two different gouges and a broken hammer.
- A pod auger requires a starting hole which usually is made with a gouge or chisel.
- The students are cautioned to cut away from themselves because the gouge blades are sharp.
- Using the V gouge, carve a different texture or pattern into each triangle.
- Hold the nib holder just like you would a pen and push the V gouge along the line.
- Last weekend 22 cyclists suffered head injuries or had gouges taken out of their helmets by the same bird.
- I demonstrated using the gouge to go over the line drawing on the linoleum's surface.
- A chisel, two gouges, jewelers' shears, and the plane blade were made in Sheffield.
- The hoard contained a gold tress-ring, a gold bracelet, two bronze axes, a knife, a gouge, and a stud.
2An indentation or groove made by gouging.
Example sentencesExamples
- By the end of the trip, you'll recognize the gouges clawed by a black bear climbing a tree, and know where to look for the timeworn autographs of lonely shepherds.
- If the problem is just a few small dings and gouges, these can be quickly prepared with some wood putty.
- I think the last time I tried shaving with blades I left large gouges in my neck.
- If you will be topping an existing laminate counter, repair any gouges or loose edges and be sure the existing laminate is glued firmly.
- Regular inspection helps workers to screen for equipment that may have been weakened by corrosion, leakage, pitting, dents or gouges.
- Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls.
- Smooth gouges had been made in the floor, cut clean by some immeasurably fine blade in geometric patterns across the lobby floor.
- As the hours passed, Emily occupied herself by taking mental notes of the objects around her: a wooden table with four thick legs, full of scratches and gouges, sat four feet away.
- The guards were hammering at a closed door, their weapons taking gouges from the painted wood.
- Then came re-tiling and painting to replace the gouges made in the walls when the old pipes were torn out.
- The back of each panel has been scarred with numerous deep gouges where screws were used to attach the paintings to the walls of the cabin.
- With these helpful wood floor repair tips you won't have to cover scratches or gouges with pieces of furniture or area rugs.
- The patterns were created by bullet-size gouges that recurred as border designs.
- They destroy everything in their path and leave deep gouges in the ocean floor.
- Old carpet samples or large pieces of cardboard are great for sliding appliances out of position, while at the same time, protecting the floor from gouges or scratches.
- Do not turn the edger on if the disk is sitting directly on the floor, because you will loose control of the machine and it will leave gouges in your floor.
- Some days later he discovered a deep gouge in the paintwork of his car.
- Fortunately, the gouge was in an area covered by a sofa, but you do not want to start arranging your furniture according to your gouges.
- Sand to remove any remaining finish and all scratches, gouges, and cuts.
- The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick.
Synonyms
furrow, channel, trench, trough, canal, gouge, hollow, indentation, rut, gutter, cutting, cut, score, fissure, seam

verb ɡuːdʒɡaʊdʒɡaʊdʒ

[with object]

1Make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as if with a gouge.
the channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water
Example sentencesExamples
- Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall.
- The blades of wind gouged large gashes in the tree, but the tree didn't crumple or fall.
- When the M63 motorway was constructed, gravel was extracted from this site and gouged out huge holes.
- Witnesses said the blast gouged a hole in the ground and propelled the car about 30 ft.
- The big storm last week caused some damage, especially near Coles Corner, where the giant waves gouged a hole in the sea wall and washed out some of the pavement.
- Huge chunks were gouged out of neighbouring tower blocks.
- But there were the hoof marks, llama droppings, and thin hard lines like bike tracks gouged into the clay by iron-bound wheels.
- The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth embankments.
- In the last six years the mob has caused over £4,000 of damage to the woman's car, including jumping up and down on the bonnet, gouging around the lock, slashing the tyres and bashing in the door.
- The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns.
- The bullet had gone through, gouging a ragged hole through the muscle, but missing the bone.
- After scooting laboriously out of the surf an hour earlier, the turtle had lurched slowly up the sand to this spot where she used her dinner-plate sized rear flippers to gouge a hole deep enough to swallow a man's arm.
- For instance, on March 23, a group went to the town of Rantis and worked for hours to fill two trenches that the army had gouged out of the road to isolate the town.
- When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again.
- When I tripped, I had fallen onto a sharp stone, and it had effectively gouged a considerable hole in both my jeans and my knee.
- At the rear of the craft struts integral to the ship's docking facilities were bent and crumpled as it hit stern-first, gouging a huge rut through the earth.
- The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping.
- A musket ball whined past my ear and gouged a furrow in the trunk of a tree.
- There were sleigh tracks gouged into the earth, coming very close to the house… it looked like the sleigh had very nearly plowed into the verandah, said Martin.
Synonyms
scoop out, burrow (out), hollow out, excavate
cut (out), hack (out), chisel (out), dig (out), scrape (out), claw (out), scratch (out)
literary delve
1. 1.1 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
  Example sentencesExamples
  You might want to file the corners a little on metal blades to avoid gouging the wood.
  Scratch and gouge both sides of the purse.
  Whenever operating any power sander, engage and disengage the machine from the material being sanded while the belt or disk is still in motion to avoid gouging the wood.
  The writing surface in front of her is gouged from thirty years of insolence and boredom at the hands of the hostile day students.
  The ominous mist of dust and sand left by the storm has lifted, and the crevices and gullies that gouge the sides of the mountains stand out in sharp relief.
  It now seems the valley below the cove was gouged out during an earlier ice age by a glacier, which drained the caves.
  The presence of asphalt would indicate that the right rear rim gouged the pavement during an accident.
  Rasa kept up a steady chatter as the tiled floors turned to squeaking boards under my feet, the black wood scratched and gouged from the passage of countless clawed feet.
  The surface of each tile was gouged.
  Wood floors must be adequately protected from damp and soft timbers can be easily gouged by heels, chair legs and animal claws.
  The surface may be soft, so be careful not to gouge it with the scraper.
2. 1.2gouge something out Cut or force something out roughly or brutally.
  one of the young man's eyes had been gouged out
  Example sentencesExamples
  One of the victim's eyes was gouged out during the attack, during which she also sustained other injuries.
  The physical assault on the books was frequently directed against the faces, and especially the eyes, of the figures on the covers, as though the very depiction of vision had to be gouged out.
  The camera then concentrates on the officials and their reading until eventually the camera swings around to the man on the table and for the next few minutes we watch as they use forceps and a scalpel to gouge out his eyes.
  It's only a simple silver device for gouging mussels out of their shells but with its single, practical use it might, if only for a moment, improve her life.
  Occasionally someone laughs at how clever this is as I sit gouging my eyeballs out with my ticket.
  The only way I can describe the pain was as though someone was gouging my eye out.
  If anyone emails me their answers to these, I will hunt them down and gouge their eyes out.
  And until what's left of our constitution is gouged out, everyone else is free to watch, read, or listen to all the smut they like in the privacy of their own laptops.
  Cell phone - sounds funny, but it feels good in my hand, substantial and easy to hold, and the squat antenna could probably gouge an eye out.
  Yes, well you could do almost anything you wanted to except bite, or gouge out eyes.
  She turns her face to me then, looking as if she's ready to gouge my eyes out with the fork in her hand.
  However, there was suspicion he was murdered because one of his eyes was gouged out of its socket and he had a gaping wound in his skull when his body was brought home.
  Get out of my house before I come up and gouge your eyeballs out!
  I want to gouge out its innards and throw them out the window.
  It has been set on fire twice, faces have been gouged out of the religious icons, walls have been daubed and even the Albanian children, as young as seven and eight, want to see the church removed and a Mosque put in its place.
  How about if I gouge them out with a wooden spoon?
  One of the dead animals, a rabbit, had had its eyes gouged out.
  Many were mutilated, their eyes gouged out, their throats slit or their skulls smashed.
3. 1.3Australian no object Dig for minerals, especially opal.
  he was gouging for ore
2North American informal Overcharge or swindle (someone)
drugs sold by the same manufacturers who are gouging patients in this country
Example sentencesExamples
- And while the price of visits, hospital stays and basic laboratory tests are kept artificially low, patients are still gouged.
- With the buzz about a possible war helping to drive prices ever higher, we'll look at whether profiteers are gouging you by the gallon.
- They had superior technology, but they were sitting on it and gouging us.
- It would be a whole lot more prosperous if he stopped gouging me and the rest of his captive clients.
- You just want to make sure that people aren't trying to gouge you in the process.
- Are we being gouged by the cellphone companies?
- We are gouged enough with the outrageous prices of going to a ball game.
- And they enjoy their jobs instead of grousing about deadlines or gouging the customer with extra charges.
- Most airlines in the US will gouge you for taking your bicycle on board, but the Mexican airlines usually let it pass as just another piece of luggage.
- Why have those greedy farmers and construction workers gouging the public when a typically efficient government agency can meet our needs.
- Here's a solution: Stop gouging us with excess fees!
- Is it possible the insurance companies are gouging us?
- Pharmaceutical companies, for instance, need to back up their ‘we care’ message by not gouging customers.
- Are we being gouged when paying top dollar to use roads and rooms which are deteriorating and ignored?
- ‘Are cities overstating a threat, overselling a technology, and undercutting more important safety countermeasures to gouge revenues out of their citizens?’
- Since they've been gouging me for so long, they ought to be glad to help me earn back a few pennies.
- I also don't think he's trying to gouge me on the increase, which is pretty reasonable.
- Well, of course the oil companies are gouging customers.
1. 2.1gouge something out Obtain money by swindling or extortion.
  he'd gouged wads out of Morty
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were very ambitious, they gouged money out of businesses and governments and so on and they really fought for something.
  My lawyer is bringing a suit against him, so maybe we'll be able to gouge something out of him.
  Last year alone, $239 million of hard-working Kiwis' money was gouged out of them and just thrown out, and this Government was totally culpable for that.
  Every year at budget time, ingenuity is expended on how to gouge more millions out of (present and future) university students.

Derivatives

gouger

noun

He has slammed the gougers who damaged the bins within 24 hours of them being put in place.
Example sentencesExamples
- With gas prices rising and war talk growing, we'll check allegations that price gougers are making you pay more at the pump.
- Greater vigilance will be required in the coming months if the gougers are not to succeed.
- Myself and friend intervened and managed to free the man from these gougers.
- So, this is a very difficult situation, and they are trying to stop people like the price gougers and perhaps the looters from making things even worse.

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'.

Definition of gouge in US English:

gouge

nounɡaʊdʒɡouj

1A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery.
Example sentencesExamples
- Hold the nib holder just like you would a pen and push the V gouge along the line.
- Last weekend 22 cyclists suffered head injuries or had gouges taken out of their helmets by the same bird.
- Eighteenth-century tools are very hard to come by, presumably because over the years they have been sharpened into oblivion, so most of Webb's gouges date to the nineteenth century.
- A pod auger requires a starting hole which usually is made with a gouge or chisel.
- The hoard contained a gold tress-ring, a gold bracelet, two bronze axes, a knife, a gouge, and a stud.
- A chisel, two gouges, jewelers' shears, and the plane blade were made in Sheffield.
- I demonstrated using the gouge to go over the line drawing on the linoleum's surface.
- The students are cautioned to cut away from themselves because the gouge blades are sharp.
- Using the V gouge, carve a different texture or pattern into each triangle.
- The new find consists of six axes, two knives (one with textile remains, perhaps from a sack), two different gouges and a broken hammer.
2An indentation or groove made by gouging.
Example sentencesExamples
- The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick.
- Some days later he discovered a deep gouge in the paintwork of his car.
- Then came re-tiling and painting to replace the gouges made in the walls when the old pipes were torn out.
- By the end of the trip, you'll recognize the gouges clawed by a black bear climbing a tree, and know where to look for the timeworn autographs of lonely shepherds.
- The guards were hammering at a closed door, their weapons taking gouges from the painted wood.
- As the hours passed, Emily occupied herself by taking mental notes of the objects around her: a wooden table with four thick legs, full of scratches and gouges, sat four feet away.
- Sand to remove any remaining finish and all scratches, gouges, and cuts.
- Fortunately, the gouge was in an area covered by a sofa, but you do not want to start arranging your furniture according to your gouges.
- With these helpful wood floor repair tips you won't have to cover scratches or gouges with pieces of furniture or area rugs.
- Do not turn the edger on if the disk is sitting directly on the floor, because you will loose control of the machine and it will leave gouges in your floor.
- They destroy everything in their path and leave deep gouges in the ocean floor.
- If you will be topping an existing laminate counter, repair any gouges or loose edges and be sure the existing laminate is glued firmly.
- Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls.
- Regular inspection helps workers to screen for equipment that may have been weakened by corrosion, leakage, pitting, dents or gouges.
- Smooth gouges had been made in the floor, cut clean by some immeasurably fine blade in geometric patterns across the lobby floor.
- The back of each panel has been scarred with numerous deep gouges where screws were used to attach the paintings to the walls of the cabin.
- The patterns were created by bullet-size gouges that recurred as border designs.
- If the problem is just a few small dings and gouges, these can be quickly prepared with some wood putty.
- Old carpet samples or large pieces of cardboard are great for sliding appliances out of position, while at the same time, protecting the floor from gouges or scratches.
- I think the last time I tried shaving with blades I left large gouges in my neck.
Synonyms
furrow, channel, trench, trough, canal, gouge, hollow, indentation, rut, gutter, cutting, cut, score, fissure, seam

verbɡaʊdʒɡouj

[with object]

1Make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as if with a gouge.
the channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water
Example sentencesExamples
- For instance, on March 23, a group went to the town of Rantis and worked for hours to fill two trenches that the army had gouged out of the road to isolate the town.
- There were sleigh tracks gouged into the earth, coming very close to the house… it looked like the sleigh had very nearly plowed into the verandah, said Martin.
- After scooting laboriously out of the surf an hour earlier, the turtle had lurched slowly up the sand to this spot where she used her dinner-plate sized rear flippers to gouge a hole deep enough to swallow a man's arm.
- The blades of wind gouged large gashes in the tree, but the tree didn't crumple or fall.
- Huge chunks were gouged out of neighbouring tower blocks.
- The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping.
- The bullet had gone through, gouging a ragged hole through the muscle, but missing the bone.
- When the M63 motorway was constructed, gravel was extracted from this site and gouged out huge holes.
- Witnesses said the blast gouged a hole in the ground and propelled the car about 30 ft.
- When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again.
- A musket ball whined past my ear and gouged a furrow in the trunk of a tree.
- The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns.
- The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth embankments.
- In the last six years the mob has caused over £4,000 of damage to the woman's car, including jumping up and down on the bonnet, gouging around the lock, slashing the tyres and bashing in the door.
- When I tripped, I had fallen onto a sharp stone, and it had effectively gouged a considerable hole in both my jeans and my knee.
- At the rear of the craft struts integral to the ship's docking facilities were bent and crumpled as it hit stern-first, gouging a huge rut through the earth.
- Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall.
- But there were the hoof marks, llama droppings, and thin hard lines like bike tracks gouged into the clay by iron-bound wheels.
- The big storm last week caused some damage, especially near Coles Corner, where the giant waves gouged a hole in the sea wall and washed out some of the pavement.
Synonyms
scoop out, burrow, burrow out, hollow out, excavate
1. 1.1 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
  Example sentencesExamples
  It now seems the valley below the cove was gouged out during an earlier ice age by a glacier, which drained the caves.
  You might want to file the corners a little on metal blades to avoid gouging the wood.
  The writing surface in front of her is gouged from thirty years of insolence and boredom at the hands of the hostile day students.
  Rasa kept up a steady chatter as the tiled floors turned to squeaking boards under my feet, the black wood scratched and gouged from the passage of countless clawed feet.
  Scratch and gouge both sides of the purse.
  The ominous mist of dust and sand left by the storm has lifted, and the crevices and gullies that gouge the sides of the mountains stand out in sharp relief.
  The surface may be soft, so be careful not to gouge it with the scraper.
  The presence of asphalt would indicate that the right rear rim gouged the pavement during an accident.
  Wood floors must be adequately protected from damp and soft timbers can be easily gouged by heels, chair legs and animal claws.
  Whenever operating any power sander, engage and disengage the machine from the material being sanded while the belt or disk is still in motion to avoid gouging the wood.
  The surface of each tile was gouged.
2. 1.2gouge something out Cut or force something out roughly or brutally.
  one of his eyes had been gouged out
  Example sentencesExamples
  It has been set on fire twice, faces have been gouged out of the religious icons, walls have been daubed and even the Albanian children, as young as seven and eight, want to see the church removed and a Mosque put in its place.
  However, there was suspicion he was murdered because one of his eyes was gouged out of its socket and he had a gaping wound in his skull when his body was brought home.
  One of the dead animals, a rabbit, had had its eyes gouged out.
  One of the victim's eyes was gouged out during the attack, during which she also sustained other injuries.
  Yes, well you could do almost anything you wanted to except bite, or gouge out eyes.
  Occasionally someone laughs at how clever this is as I sit gouging my eyeballs out with my ticket.
  The only way I can describe the pain was as though someone was gouging my eye out.
  The physical assault on the books was frequently directed against the faces, and especially the eyes, of the figures on the covers, as though the very depiction of vision had to be gouged out.
  I want to gouge out its innards and throw them out the window.
  She turns her face to me then, looking as if she's ready to gouge my eyes out with the fork in her hand.
  It's only a simple silver device for gouging mussels out of their shells but with its single, practical use it might, if only for a moment, improve her life.
  If anyone emails me their answers to these, I will hunt them down and gouge their eyes out.
  Many were mutilated, their eyes gouged out, their throats slit or their skulls smashed.
  Get out of my house before I come up and gouge your eyeballs out!
  Cell phone - sounds funny, but it feels good in my hand, substantial and easy to hold, and the squat antenna could probably gouge an eye out.
  How about if I gouge them out with a wooden spoon?
  The camera then concentrates on the officials and their reading until eventually the camera swings around to the man on the table and for the next few minutes we watch as they use forceps and a scalpel to gouge out his eyes.
  And until what's left of our constitution is gouged out, everyone else is free to watch, read, or listen to all the smut they like in the privacy of their own laptops.
2North American informal Overcharge; swindle.
the airline ends up gouging the very passengers it is supposed to assist
Example sentencesExamples
- Is it possible the insurance companies are gouging us?
- And they enjoy their jobs instead of grousing about deadlines or gouging the customer with extra charges.
- Since they've been gouging me for so long, they ought to be glad to help me earn back a few pennies.
- With the buzz about a possible war helping to drive prices ever higher, we'll look at whether profiteers are gouging you by the gallon.
- And while the price of visits, hospital stays and basic laboratory tests are kept artificially low, patients are still gouged.
- You just want to make sure that people aren't trying to gouge you in the process.
- We are gouged enough with the outrageous prices of going to a ball game.
- Are we being gouged when paying top dollar to use roads and rooms which are deteriorating and ignored?
- Most airlines in the US will gouge you for taking your bicycle on board, but the Mexican airlines usually let it pass as just another piece of luggage.
- ‘Are cities overstating a threat, overselling a technology, and undercutting more important safety countermeasures to gouge revenues out of their citizens?’
- Are we being gouged by the cellphone companies?
- Here's a solution: Stop gouging us with excess fees!
- I also don't think he's trying to gouge me on the increase, which is pretty reasonable.
- They had superior technology, but they were sitting on it and gouging us.
- Pharmaceutical companies, for instance, need to back up their ‘we care’ message by not gouging customers.
- It would be a whole lot more prosperous if he stopped gouging me and the rest of his captive clients.
- Well, of course the oil companies are gouging customers.
- Why have those greedy farmers and construction workers gouging the public when a typically efficient government agency can meet our needs.

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’.

单词	gouge
释义	Definition of gouge in English: gouge noun ɡuːdʒɡaʊdʒɡaʊdʒ 1A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery. Example sentencesExamples Eighteenth-century tools are very hard to come by, presumably because over the years they have been sharpened into oblivion, so most of Webb's gouges date to the nineteenth century. The new find consists of six axes, two knives (one with textile remains, perhaps from a sack), two different gouges and a broken hammer. A pod auger requires a starting hole which usually is made with a gouge or chisel. The students are cautioned to cut away from themselves because the gouge blades are sharp. Using the V gouge, carve a different texture or pattern into each triangle. Hold the nib holder just like you would a pen and push the V gouge along the line. Last weekend 22 cyclists suffered head injuries or had gouges taken out of their helmets by the same bird. I demonstrated using the gouge to go over the line drawing on the linoleum's surface. A chisel, two gouges, jewelers' shears, and the plane blade were made in Sheffield. The hoard contained a gold tress-ring, a gold bracelet, two bronze axes, a knife, a gouge, and a stud. 2An indentation or groove made by gouging. Example sentencesExamples By the end of the trip, you'll recognize the gouges clawed by a black bear climbing a tree, and know where to look for the timeworn autographs of lonely shepherds. If the problem is just a few small dings and gouges, these can be quickly prepared with some wood putty. I think the last time I tried shaving with blades I left large gouges in my neck. If you will be topping an existing laminate counter, repair any gouges or loose edges and be sure the existing laminate is glued firmly. Regular inspection helps workers to screen for equipment that may have been weakened by corrosion, leakage, pitting, dents or gouges. Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls. Smooth gouges had been made in the floor, cut clean by some immeasurably fine blade in geometric patterns across the lobby floor. As the hours passed, Emily occupied herself by taking mental notes of the objects around her: a wooden table with four thick legs, full of scratches and gouges, sat four feet away. The guards were hammering at a closed door, their weapons taking gouges from the painted wood. Then came re-tiling and painting to replace the gouges made in the walls when the old pipes were torn out. The back of each panel has been scarred with numerous deep gouges where screws were used to attach the paintings to the walls of the cabin. With these helpful wood floor repair tips you won't have to cover scratches or gouges with pieces of furniture or area rugs. The patterns were created by bullet-size gouges that recurred as border designs. They destroy everything in their path and leave deep gouges in the ocean floor. Old carpet samples or large pieces of cardboard are great for sliding appliances out of position, while at the same time, protecting the floor from gouges or scratches. Do not turn the edger on if the disk is sitting directly on the floor, because you will loose control of the machine and it will leave gouges in your floor. Some days later he discovered a deep gouge in the paintwork of his car. Fortunately, the gouge was in an area covered by a sofa, but you do not want to start arranging your furniture according to your gouges. Sand to remove any remaining finish and all scratches, gouges, and cuts. The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick. Synonyms furrow, channel, trench, trough, canal, gouge, hollow, indentation, rut, gutter, cutting, cut, score, fissure, seam verb ɡuːdʒɡaʊdʒɡaʊdʒ [with object] 1Make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as if with a gouge. the channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water Example sentencesExamples Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall. The blades of wind gouged large gashes in the tree, but the tree didn't crumple or fall. When the M63 motorway was constructed, gravel was extracted from this site and gouged out huge holes. Witnesses said the blast gouged a hole in the ground and propelled the car about 30 ft. The big storm last week caused some damage, especially near Coles Corner, where the giant waves gouged a hole in the sea wall and washed out some of the pavement. Huge chunks were gouged out of neighbouring tower blocks. But there were the hoof marks, llama droppings, and thin hard lines like bike tracks gouged into the clay by iron-bound wheels. The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth embankments. In the last six years the mob has caused over £4,000 of damage to the woman's car, including jumping up and down on the bonnet, gouging around the lock, slashing the tyres and bashing in the door. The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns. The bullet had gone through, gouging a ragged hole through the muscle, but missing the bone. After scooting laboriously out of the surf an hour earlier, the turtle had lurched slowly up the sand to this spot where she used her dinner-plate sized rear flippers to gouge a hole deep enough to swallow a man's arm. For instance, on March 23, a group went to the town of Rantis and worked for hours to fill two trenches that the army had gouged out of the road to isolate the town. When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again. When I tripped, I had fallen onto a sharp stone, and it had effectively gouged a considerable hole in both my jeans and my knee. At the rear of the craft struts integral to the ship's docking facilities were bent and crumpled as it hit stern-first, gouging a huge rut through the earth. The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping. A musket ball whined past my ear and gouged a furrow in the trunk of a tree. There were sleigh tracks gouged into the earth, coming very close to the house… it looked like the sleigh had very nearly plowed into the verandah, said Martin. Synonyms scoop out, burrow (out), hollow out, excavate cut (out), hack (out), chisel (out), dig (out), scrape (out), claw (out), scratch (out) literary delve 1.1 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 Example sentencesExamples You might want to file the corners a little on metal blades to avoid gouging the wood. Scratch and gouge both sides of the purse. Whenever operating any power sander, engage and disengage the machine from the material being sanded while the belt or disk is still in motion to avoid gouging the wood. The writing surface in front of her is gouged from thirty years of insolence and boredom at the hands of the hostile day students. The ominous mist of dust and sand left by the storm has lifted, and the crevices and gullies that gouge the sides of the mountains stand out in sharp relief. It now seems the valley below the cove was gouged out during an earlier ice age by a glacier, which drained the caves. The presence of asphalt would indicate that the right rear rim gouged the pavement during an accident. Rasa kept up a steady chatter as the tiled floors turned to squeaking boards under my feet, the black wood scratched and gouged from the passage of countless clawed feet. The surface of each tile was gouged. Wood floors must be adequately protected from damp and soft timbers can be easily gouged by heels, chair legs and animal claws. The surface may be soft, so be careful not to gouge it with the scraper. 1.2gouge something out Cut or force something out roughly or brutally. one of the young man's eyes had been gouged out Example sentencesExamples One of the victim's eyes was gouged out during the attack, during which she also sustained other injuries. The physical assault on the books was frequently directed against the faces, and especially the eyes, of the figures on the covers, as though the very depiction of vision had to be gouged out. The camera then concentrates on the officials and their reading until eventually the camera swings around to the man on the table and for the next few minutes we watch as they use forceps and a scalpel to gouge out his eyes. It's only a simple silver device for gouging mussels out of their shells but with its single, practical use it might, if only for a moment, improve her life. Occasionally someone laughs at how clever this is as I sit gouging my eyeballs out with my ticket. The only way I can describe the pain was as though someone was gouging my eye out. If anyone emails me their answers to these, I will hunt them down and gouge their eyes out. And until what's left of our constitution is gouged out, everyone else is free to watch, read, or listen to all the smut they like in the privacy of their own laptops. Cell phone - sounds funny, but it feels good in my hand, substantial and easy to hold, and the squat antenna could probably gouge an eye out. Yes, well you could do almost anything you wanted to except bite, or gouge out eyes. She turns her face to me then, looking as if she's ready to gouge my eyes out with the fork in her hand. However, there was suspicion he was murdered because one of his eyes was gouged out of its socket and he had a gaping wound in his skull when his body was brought home. Get out of my house before I come up and gouge your eyeballs out! I want to gouge out its innards and throw them out the window. It has been set on fire twice, faces have been gouged out of the religious icons, walls have been daubed and even the Albanian children, as young as seven and eight, want to see the church removed and a Mosque put in its place. How about if I gouge them out with a wooden spoon? One of the dead animals, a rabbit, had had its eyes gouged out. Many were mutilated, their eyes gouged out, their throats slit or their skulls smashed. 1.3Australian no object Dig for minerals, especially opal. he was gouging for ore 2North American informal Overcharge or swindle (someone) drugs sold by the same manufacturers who are gouging patients in this country Example sentencesExamples And while the price of visits, hospital stays and basic laboratory tests are kept artificially low, patients are still gouged. With the buzz about a possible war helping to drive prices ever higher, we'll look at whether profiteers are gouging you by the gallon. They had superior technology, but they were sitting on it and gouging us. It would be a whole lot more prosperous if he stopped gouging me and the rest of his captive clients. You just want to make sure that people aren't trying to gouge you in the process. Are we being gouged by the cellphone companies? We are gouged enough with the outrageous prices of going to a ball game. And they enjoy their jobs instead of grousing about deadlines or gouging the customer with extra charges. Most airlines in the US will gouge you for taking your bicycle on board, but the Mexican airlines usually let it pass as just another piece of luggage. Why have those greedy farmers and construction workers gouging the public when a typically efficient government agency can meet our needs. Here's a solution: Stop gouging us with excess fees! Is it possible the insurance companies are gouging us? Pharmaceutical companies, for instance, need to back up their ‘we care’ message by not gouging customers. Are we being gouged when paying top dollar to use roads and rooms which are deteriorating and ignored? ‘Are cities overstating a threat, overselling a technology, and undercutting more important safety countermeasures to gouge revenues out of their citizens?’ Since they've been gouging me for so long, they ought to be glad to help me earn back a few pennies. I also don't think he's trying to gouge me on the increase, which is pretty reasonable. Well, of course the oil companies are gouging customers. 2.1gouge something out Obtain money by swindling or extortion. he'd gouged wads out of Morty Example sentencesExamples They were very ambitious, they gouged money out of businesses and governments and so on and they really fought for something. My lawyer is bringing a suit against him, so maybe we'll be able to gouge something out of him. Last year alone, $239 million of hard-working Kiwis' money was gouged out of them and just thrown out, and this Government was totally culpable for that. Every year at budget time, ingenuity is expended on how to gouge more millions out of (present and future) university students. Derivatives gouger noun He has slammed the gougers who damaged the bins within 24 hours of them being put in place. Example sentencesExamples With gas prices rising and war talk growing, we'll check allegations that price gougers are making you pay more at the pump. Greater vigilance will be required in the coming months if the gougers are not to succeed. Myself and friend intervened and managed to free the man from these gougers. So, this is a very difficult situation, and they are trying to stop people like the price gougers and perhaps the looters from making things even worse. 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'. Definition of gouge in US English: gouge nounɡaʊdʒɡouj 1A chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery. Example sentencesExamples Hold the nib holder just like you would a pen and push the V gouge along the line. Last weekend 22 cyclists suffered head injuries or had gouges taken out of their helmets by the same bird. Eighteenth-century tools are very hard to come by, presumably because over the years they have been sharpened into oblivion, so most of Webb's gouges date to the nineteenth century. A pod auger requires a starting hole which usually is made with a gouge or chisel. The hoard contained a gold tress-ring, a gold bracelet, two bronze axes, a knife, a gouge, and a stud. A chisel, two gouges, jewelers' shears, and the plane blade were made in Sheffield. I demonstrated using the gouge to go over the line drawing on the linoleum's surface. The students are cautioned to cut away from themselves because the gouge blades are sharp. Using the V gouge, carve a different texture or pattern into each triangle. The new find consists of six axes, two knives (one with textile remains, perhaps from a sack), two different gouges and a broken hammer. 2An indentation or groove made by gouging. Example sentencesExamples The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick. Some days later he discovered a deep gouge in the paintwork of his car. Then came re-tiling and painting to replace the gouges made in the walls when the old pipes were torn out. By the end of the trip, you'll recognize the gouges clawed by a black bear climbing a tree, and know where to look for the timeworn autographs of lonely shepherds. The guards were hammering at a closed door, their weapons taking gouges from the painted wood. As the hours passed, Emily occupied herself by taking mental notes of the objects around her: a wooden table with four thick legs, full of scratches and gouges, sat four feet away. Sand to remove any remaining finish and all scratches, gouges, and cuts. Fortunately, the gouge was in an area covered by a sofa, but you do not want to start arranging your furniture according to your gouges. With these helpful wood floor repair tips you won't have to cover scratches or gouges with pieces of furniture or area rugs. Do not turn the edger on if the disk is sitting directly on the floor, because you will loose control of the machine and it will leave gouges in your floor. They destroy everything in their path and leave deep gouges in the ocean floor. If you will be topping an existing laminate counter, repair any gouges or loose edges and be sure the existing laminate is glued firmly. Most of the nicks, scuffs and gouges that currently mar the work are a result of human carelessness, such as carts and chairs banging into the walls. Regular inspection helps workers to screen for equipment that may have been weakened by corrosion, leakage, pitting, dents or gouges. Smooth gouges had been made in the floor, cut clean by some immeasurably fine blade in geometric patterns across the lobby floor. The back of each panel has been scarred with numerous deep gouges where screws were used to attach the paintings to the walls of the cabin. The patterns were created by bullet-size gouges that recurred as border designs. If the problem is just a few small dings and gouges, these can be quickly prepared with some wood putty. Old carpet samples or large pieces of cardboard are great for sliding appliances out of position, while at the same time, protecting the floor from gouges or scratches. I think the last time I tried shaving with blades I left large gouges in my neck. Synonyms furrow, channel, trench, trough, canal, gouge, hollow, indentation, rut, gutter, cutting, cut, score, fissure, seam verbɡaʊdʒɡouj [with object] 1Make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as if with a gouge. the channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water Example sentencesExamples For instance, on March 23, a group went to the town of Rantis and worked for hours to fill two trenches that the army had gouged out of the road to isolate the town. There were sleigh tracks gouged into the earth, coming very close to the house… it looked like the sleigh had very nearly plowed into the verandah, said Martin. After scooting laboriously out of the surf an hour earlier, the turtle had lurched slowly up the sand to this spot where she used her dinner-plate sized rear flippers to gouge a hole deep enough to swallow a man's arm. The blades of wind gouged large gashes in the tree, but the tree didn't crumple or fall. Huge chunks were gouged out of neighbouring tower blocks. The Romans reputedly forded the river a few miles east of Mr Boanas' history-making attempt, but the river is believed to have been marshland then, and without the deep channels gouged out by modern shipping. The bullet had gone through, gouging a ragged hole through the muscle, but missing the bone. When the M63 motorway was constructed, gravel was extracted from this site and gouged out huge holes. Witnesses said the blast gouged a hole in the ground and propelled the car about 30 ft. When the skies open up over the desert, watercourses alter, rivers gouge out deep channels and tracks, roads break up, trees are uprooted and our dramatic countryside changes yet again. A musket ball whined past my ear and gouged a furrow in the trunk of a tree. The gravel began to gouge holes in the hard rubber tires of the trucks, and the bumpier rides that resulted led to an increase in the number of mechanical breakdowns. The channel gouged out for the river is about 20 feet deep and flanked by high concrete walls or earth embankments. In the last six years the mob has caused over £4,000 of damage to the woman's car, including jumping up and down on the bonnet, gouging around the lock, slashing the tyres and bashing in the door. When I tripped, I had fallen onto a sharp stone, and it had effectively gouged a considerable hole in both my jeans and my knee. At the rear of the craft struts integral to the ship's docking facilities were bent and crumpled as it hit stern-first, gouging a huge rut through the earth. Last year I was daft enough to get the guy to help me with the counter top and the clumsy fellow managed to gouge a great chunk out of the kitchen wall. But there were the hoof marks, llama droppings, and thin hard lines like bike tracks gouged into the clay by iron-bound wheels. The big storm last week caused some damage, especially near Coles Corner, where the giant waves gouged a hole in the sea wall and washed out some of the pavement. Synonyms scoop out, burrow, burrow out, hollow out, excavate 1.1 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 Example sentencesExamples It now seems the valley below the cove was gouged out during an earlier ice age by a glacier, which drained the caves. You might want to file the corners a little on metal blades to avoid gouging the wood. The writing surface in front of her is gouged from thirty years of insolence and boredom at the hands of the hostile day students. Rasa kept up a steady chatter as the tiled floors turned to squeaking boards under my feet, the black wood scratched and gouged from the passage of countless clawed feet. Scratch and gouge both sides of the purse. The ominous mist of dust and sand left by the storm has lifted, and the crevices and gullies that gouge the sides of the mountains stand out in sharp relief. The surface may be soft, so be careful not to gouge it with the scraper. The presence of asphalt would indicate that the right rear rim gouged the pavement during an accident. Wood floors must be adequately protected from damp and soft timbers can be easily gouged by heels, chair legs and animal claws. Whenever operating any power sander, engage and disengage the machine from the material being sanded while the belt or disk is still in motion to avoid gouging the wood. The surface of each tile was gouged. 1.2gouge something out Cut or force something out roughly or brutally. one of his eyes had been gouged out Example sentencesExamples It has been set on fire twice, faces have been gouged out of the religious icons, walls have been daubed and even the Albanian children, as young as seven and eight, want to see the church removed and a Mosque put in its place. However, there was suspicion he was murdered because one of his eyes was gouged out of its socket and he had a gaping wound in his skull when his body was brought home. One of the dead animals, a rabbit, had had its eyes gouged out. One of the victim's eyes was gouged out during the attack, during which she also sustained other injuries. Yes, well you could do almost anything you wanted to except bite, or gouge out eyes. Occasionally someone laughs at how clever this is as I sit gouging my eyeballs out with my ticket. The only way I can describe the pain was as though someone was gouging my eye out. The physical assault on the books was frequently directed against the faces, and especially the eyes, of the figures on the covers, as though the very depiction of vision had to be gouged out. I want to gouge out its innards and throw them out the window. She turns her face to me then, looking as if she's ready to gouge my eyes out with the fork in her hand. It's only a simple silver device for gouging mussels out of their shells but with its single, practical use it might, if only for a moment, improve her life. If anyone emails me their answers to these, I will hunt them down and gouge their eyes out. Many were mutilated, their eyes gouged out, their throats slit or their skulls smashed. Get out of my house before I come up and gouge your eyeballs out! Cell phone - sounds funny, but it feels good in my hand, substantial and easy to hold, and the squat antenna could probably gouge an eye out. How about if I gouge them out with a wooden spoon? The camera then concentrates on the officials and their reading until eventually the camera swings around to the man on the table and for the next few minutes we watch as they use forceps and a scalpel to gouge out his eyes. And until what's left of our constitution is gouged out, everyone else is free to watch, read, or listen to all the smut they like in the privacy of their own laptops. 2North American informal Overcharge; swindle. the airline ends up gouging the very passengers it is supposed to assist Example sentencesExamples Is it possible the insurance companies are gouging us? And they enjoy their jobs instead of grousing about deadlines or gouging the customer with extra charges. Since they've been gouging me for so long, they ought to be glad to help me earn back a few pennies. With the buzz about a possible war helping to drive prices ever higher, we'll look at whether profiteers are gouging you by the gallon. And while the price of visits, hospital stays and basic laboratory tests are kept artificially low, patients are still gouged. You just want to make sure that people aren't trying to gouge you in the process. We are gouged enough with the outrageous prices of going to a ball game. Are we being gouged when paying top dollar to use roads and rooms which are deteriorating and ignored? Most airlines in the US will gouge you for taking your bicycle on board, but the Mexican airlines usually let it pass as just another piece of luggage. ‘Are cities overstating a threat, overselling a technology, and undercutting more important safety countermeasures to gouge revenues out of their citizens?’ Are we being gouged by the cellphone companies? Here's a solution: Stop gouging us with excess fees! I also don't think he's trying to gouge me on the increase, which is pretty reasonable. They had superior technology, but they were sitting on it and gouging us. Pharmaceutical companies, for instance, need to back up their ‘we care’ message by not gouging customers. It would be a whole lot more prosperous if he stopped gouging me and the rest of his captive clients. Well, of course the oil companies are gouging customers. Why have those greedy farmers and construction workers gouging the public when a typically efficient government agency can meet our needs. 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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