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a hole or hollow that has been dug or cut into something: There are deep gouges in the soil where the car left the track. a tool with a handle, a long, curved blade and a sharp end, used for cutting wood and stone and in surgery (= medical cutting): The debris is cleared out with a gouge. CarlosAndreSantos/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages.
a hole or hollow that has been dug or cut into something: There are deep gouges in the soil where the car left the track. a tool with a handle, a long, curved blade and a sharp end, used for cutting wood and stone and in surgery (= medical cutting): The debris is cleared out with a gouge. CarlosAndreSantos/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages.
If you gouge something, you make a hole or a long cut in it, usually with a pointed object.
To gouge can mean to make a hole or dent in something, or to swindle or steal by overcharging. If your local gas station raises prices because a storm is coming, you may say that the station owner is gouging you — and that's illegal.
The meaning of GOUGE is a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section. How to use gouge in a sentence. a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section; the act of gouging; a groove or cavity scooped out…
noun. a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side. an act of gouging. a groove or hole made by gouging. an act or instance of extorting or overcharging; a swindle. the amount of money extorted or overcharged: a gouge of $20 for shipping and delivery. Geology.
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 had gouged her cheek with a screwdriver.
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.
GOUGE definition: to make a hole or long cut in something. Learn more.
gouge meaning, definition, what is gouge: to make a deep hole or cut in the surfac...: Learn more.
