GOUGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gouge mean? 

• GOUGE (noun)
  The noun GOUGE has 3 senses:

1. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

2. and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

3. the act of gouging

  Familiarity information: GOUGE used as a noun is uncommon.

• GOUGE (verb)
  The verb GOUGE has 3 senses:

1. force with the thumb

2. obtain by coercion or intimidation

3. make a groove in

  Familiarity information: GOUGE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOUGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dent; ding; gouge; nick

Hypernyms ("gouge" is a kind of...):

blemish; defect; mar (a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gouge"):

dig (a small gouge (as in the cover of a book))

Derivation:

gouge (make a groove in)

Sense 2

Meaning:

And edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("gouge" is a kind of...):

edge tool (any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge))

Derivation:

gouge (make a groove in)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of gouging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("gouge" is a kind of...):

creating by removal (the act of creating by removing something)

Derivation:

gouge (force with the thumb)

• GOUGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they gouge    ... he / she / it gouges   
Past simple: gouged   
Past participle: gouged   
-ing form: gouging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Force with the thumb

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

force out; gouge

Context example:

gouge out his eyes

Hypernyms (to "gouge" is one way to...):

mar; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Also:

gouge out (make gouges into a surface)

Derivation:

gouge (the act of gouging)

gouger (an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obtain by coercion or intimidation

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

extort; gouge; rack; squeeze; wring

Context example:

They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him

Hypernyms (to "gouge" is one way to...):

fleece; gazump; hook; overcharge; pluck; plume; rob; soak; surcharge (rip off; ask an unreasonable price)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gouge"):

bleed (get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something from somebody

Derivation:

gouger (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make a groove in

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

gouge; rout

Hypernyms (to "gouge" is one way to...):

core out; hollow; hollow out (remove the interior of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

gouge (and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves)

gouge (an impression in a surface (as made by a blow))

 Context examples 

He's all cut an' gouged underneath.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Tell him the deck flopped up and gouged yer teeth out iv yer jaw,” Louis grinned.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)