Definitions of gouge [ʊdʒ]

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Definition of 'gouge'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) gouge
a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.

2.  gouge
an act of gouging.

3.  gouge
a hole made by gouging.

4.  gouge
an act of extortion; swindle.

5.  gouge
a layer of decomposed rocks or minerals found along the walls of a vein.

6.  gouge
fragments of rock that have accumulated between or along the walls of a fault.

7. (v.t.) gouge
to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge.

8.  gouge
to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge (often fol. by out).

9.  gouge
to make a gouge in:
to gouge one's leg.

10.  gouge
to extort from or overcharge.

11. (v.i.) gouge
to engage in extortion or swindling.

Etymology: (1300–50; < MF < LL gu(l)bia, perh. < Celtic; cf. OIr gulba sting, Welsh gylf beak, Cornish gilb borer)

Definition of 'gouge'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) dent, ding, gouge, nick
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

2. (noun) gouge
and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

3. (verb) gouge
the act of gouging

4. (verb) gouge, force out
force with the thumb
"gouge out his eyes"

5. (verb) extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring
obtain by coercion or intimidation
"They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

6. (verb) rout, gouge
make a groove in

Definition of 'gouge'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) gouge
to cut or dig deep holes in
marks gouged into the wood floor

Definition of 'gouge'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) gouge
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

2. (noun) gouge
a bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve

3. (noun) gouge
an incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc

4. (noun) gouge
soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein

5. (noun) gouge
the act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge

6. (noun) gouge
imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person

Translation of 'gouge'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make (a groove or hole) with a tool He gouged (out) a hole in the wood.
Afrikaans: uitsteek, uithol	Arabic: يَثْقُب	Bulgarian: издълбавам
Brazilian: cavar	Czech: (vy)dlabat	German: aushöhlen
Danish: udhule	Greek: σκάβω, αυλακώνω	Spanish: excavar, escoplear con gu
Estonian: (peitliga)õõnestama	Farsi: کندن؛ شیار دار کردن	Finnish: kovertaa
French: gouger, creuser	Hebrew: לַחֲרוץ, לַחפּוֹר, לִפעוֹ	Hindi: गोल बरमाना
Croatian: izdubiti	Hungarian: (ki)vés	Indonesian: membuat lubang
Icelandic: gera gat eða rauf með hol	Italian: scavare; perforare	Japanese: 彫る
Korean: 둥근끌로 파다	Lithuanian: išduobti, išskobti	Latvian: kalt; grebt
Malay: menebuk	Dutch: uithollen, uitgraven	Norwegian: hule ut
Polish: wydłubać, wyżłobić	Persian: کندن؛ شیار دار کردن	Pashto: څولى ( سكنه
Portuguese: cavar	Romanian: a scobi (cu dalta)	Russian: выдалбливать
Slovak: (vy)dlabať, (vy)hĺbiť	Slovenian: (iz)dolbsti	Serbian: urezati
Swedish: urholka, gräva ut	Thai: ขุด	Turkish: oymak, delmek
Taiwanese: 鑿	Ukrainian: видовбувати	Urdu: کسی اوزار سے چھیدنا
Vietnamese: đục thủng	Chinese: 凿
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