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 value finance commerce 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 child was gouging at the sandcastle with his small shovel, destroying it quickly. " body action inhuman Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To use a gouge. Examples : "The carpenter was gouging a decorative groove into the wooden chair leg. " utensil work Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A mark produced by gouging. Examples : "The carpenter carefully examined the gouging in the wooden beam. " mark Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
