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GOUGE OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gouge out mean?
• GOUGE OUT (verb)
The verb GOUGE OUT has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GOUGE OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make gouges into a surface
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor
Hypernyms (to "gouge out" is one way to...):
cut out (form and create by cutting out)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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