noun Download 🔗Share Senses relating to cutting tools. Examples : "The carpenter used a sharp gouge to carve the intricate design into the wooden bowl. " utensil technical machine Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. Examples : "The nail left a deep gouge in the tire." mark action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (originally United States) An act of gouging. Examples : "The repairman's estimate felt like a gouge, charging far more than the actual work was worth. " business economy finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A cheat, a fraud; an imposition. Examples : "The used car salesman's high price was a clear gouge. " business finance economy moral Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share An impostor. Examples : ""The new professor seemed knowledgeable at first, but after a few weeks, we realized he was a gouge; he clearly didn't have the expertise he claimed." " character person Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore. Examples : "The miner carefully chipped away the gouge of clay to expose the valuable ore vein. " geology material mineral Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Information. Examples : "The journalist received a valuable gouge about the politician's secret dealings. " info communication Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. Examples : "Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood." mark action utensil Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. Examples : "The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers." business economy moral finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. Examples : "The angry boy tried to gouge his brother's eye. " body action inhuman Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To use a gouge. Examples : "The carpenter used a gouge to carve the intricate design into the wooden bowl. " utensil action work Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
