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Webster Dictionary

  1. Gouging

    of Bouge

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. gouging

    In ship-building (see SNAIL-CREEPING). Also, a cruel practice in one or two American states, now extremely rare, in which a man's eye was squeezed out by his rival's thumb-nail, the fingers being entangled in the hair for the necessary purchase.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Gouging in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Gouging in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Gouging in a Sentence

  1. Deputy Attorney General Jim Davis:

    We had a team go out immediately and we found out there was some truth to the claim that there was price gouging going on at the hotel.

  2. Brad Gerstman:

    There's nothing illegal about selling hand sanitizer, gloves or masks. He claims he wasn't gouging and that evidence of that will be laid out in the coming court proceedings.

  3. Sean Patrick Maloney:

    That's part of the strategy of the Inflation Reduction Act. And all of these strategies together - together with going after price gouging ,by the way, because these big oil companies are making a fortune off of Putin's war and the rest. We've got to make sure people aren't profiting off the war. All of these strategies together can help bring prices down.

  4. Robert Weissman:

    This agreement falls short of what Americans want and deserve to stop Big Pharma price gouging, but it is a positive step forward nonetheless.

  5. Chuck Schumer:

    The U.S. is a major oil producer. We only get one percent of imports from Russia, the real problem with gas prices is gouging and monopolies. Democrats are focused on those two issues. We are focused very strongly. You’re going to hear a lot more from us on those issues in the future.

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