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gouge

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1. gouge - Noun

2. gouge - Verb

3. Gouge - Proper noun

Meaning

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.

The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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One man, he disappoint me; He give me the gouge and he take my glee. Now every other man I see Remind me of the one man who disappoint me. Fiona Apple

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. Todd Gitlin

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem. Stephanie Herseth

They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss Source: Internet

They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him Source: Internet

gouge out his eyes Source: Internet

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