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gouge

noun as in groove, hole

verb as in cut, scoop

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Fortunately, removing those gouges and restoring the wood’s original luster is a fast, easy project that anyone can handle.

The Obama administration has not put forward any plan that will outright gouge more than $700 billion from Medicare.

The spine of the Appalachian Mountains is being obliterated to gouge out the seams of black coal.

At court, Poggio once got into a brawl with a rival official and tried to gouge out his eyes.

I had four and a half rows to trim, and then the whole orchard to go over with paint pot and gouge and cement.

But he finished the task at last and began to gouge a channel in the planking close to the other ribs.

It was as though a giant had taken a gouge and cut a bay right through the sea cliffs.

A small gouge would assist the penknife, and render the operation less difficult.

He was honest enough still for that, though he had not the courage to admit how deep a gouge the luncheon made in his savings.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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