Gouge

Quick meaning: Gouge is a noun meaning Senses relating to cutting tools.

Meaning

Senses relating to cutting tools.

More Meanings

1. A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
2. (originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
3. (mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
4. (US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.
5. (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
6. (slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
7. (slang) An impostor.

Example Sentences

The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.

As all naval aviators have learned at one time or another in their careers, “There's plenty of bad gouge out there," and it has, does, and will get the unwary fliers in trouble.

He squinted through frozen lashes, trying to make better sense of the valley beneath him, a gouge running east to west, so deep and narrow he could only see the bottom when they passed directly overhead.

He makes himself look at his daughter's changing body the way he might look at a gouge on his own leg, forcing himself to examine every detail until he's not looking at a horror but a fact; something that needs fixing.

Word Forms

• gouges
• gouging
• gouged

Synonyms for gouge

Depending on context, synonyms include swindle, engrave, grave, incise, defraud, wring.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include groove, rack, wring, rout, nick, dent.

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