gouged

verbcut, scoop

Synonyms for gouged

verb cut, scoop

Antonyms for gouged

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Word Origin & History

1560s, "to cut with a gouge," from gouge (n.). Meaning "to force out with a gouge" (especially of the eyes, in fighting) attested by 1800. Meaning "swindle" is American English colloquial from 1826 (implied in plural noun gougers). Related: Gouged; gouging.

Example Sentences for gouged

The plank that is used to form the bottom of the boat is not gouged out.

Theres no use in telling a young man what to do when he has been gouged.

He had gouged the eye out of the third, for some trifling difference of opinion.

Ice and water wore off the nub and leveled the hill, then gouged out the gulch.

He clasped his hands, pressed them till the fingers of one gouged the back of the other.

After we fit the battle of Bull Run, I gouged that word out of my dictionary.

That is, the basin of each was gouged or eroded by the movement of glacial ice.

Glaciers have gouged or scooped many basins in the solid rock.

His head was white with age, and his eyes appeared to have been gouged out.

Its basin was gouged from solid granite by the old Long's Peak Glacier.