to gouge
20
7.2
- verb
- /ɡaʊdʒ/
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- Straight down Wilshire Boulevard is an enormous canyon, a river bottom gouged out of concrete in the big earthquake.
- gouge out an eye
And now he's kneading his way up, like, gouging out the air from my chest.
- And now he's kneading his way up, like, gouging out the air from my chest.
- After only minutes, they fled and were all found dead with crosses gouged into their eyes.
- Even if you gouge out my green tattoos with a knife.
- It was as if her wild assailant, or was it assailants, had been intent on gouging out chunks of her flesh.
Examples
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The impact of the water gouged out a deep pool in the rock of the creek bed.
Fiction book (1992) -
The passage of the saucer has gouged a long trail through the forest behind the ship.
Fiction book (1994) -
And how did the wood get gouged out?
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If other teams had come this way earlier, then a deep channel would be gouged into the snow.
Fiction book (2000) -
We passed gullies so raw they seemed to have been gouged out of the earth by enormous pickaxes.
Academic text (2012) -
The dirt road, thin as a hall, this oldest road, is piled and gouged with boulders.
Fiction book (1991) -
The bench, his bed probably, was gouged out by initials and scratched with graffiti.
Fiction book (2000) -
All night she banged a rock on the floor or gouged it with a knife, alternately pounding and chiseling.
Fiction book (1999) -
I felt uneasy looking at satellite images of hundreds of illegal craters brutally gouged into archaeological sites in Iraq.
Academic text (2007) -
The tree was badly damaged when the storm gouged the trunk with flying debris.
Synonyms
170
2.2
To make a hole by using a tool that turns
136
1.8
To make a hole in paper or leather with a small tool
110
3.5
To make a hole in something with a sharp object like a needle
80
6.5
To break hard ground or ice by striking with a tool
53
3.0
To cut forcefully with a knife or sharp tool
50
3.9
To make a small hole in something with a sharp object that lets air or liquid escape
27
2.2
To make a hollow in a surface by hitting or pressing it
12
6.1
Make a hole through something by piercing it
10
4.1
Cut or move quickly and smoothly through air and water
8
8.9
Cut a groove in wood or stone with a tool
6
6.4
To make an opening in something by cutting or piercing
6
8.5
To break a hole in an object by hitting or crushing it
5
7.4
To make a deep cut or groove in a surface by scraping
5
4.2
To cut something deeply, often by accident
3
4.5
To loosen and move soil with a tool like a spade
3
4.2
Move a sharp object into something to cut it
2
5.1
To make a long narrow cut or channel in a surface
1
4.9
To make a hole in something with a tool or with animal teeth
1
9.9
To make small holes in wood by hand
To cut deep into a surface to make patterns or letters
To make a hole through something with a tool
Phrasal Verbs
How Deep
Surface Forms
Etymology
To gouge comes from the tool name and means to cut or scoop out with force, like using a curved chisel or your thumb to remove something.