gouge
gouge is a 5-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. 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.
- noun. A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
- noun. An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
- noun. Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
- noun. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
- noun. Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
- noun. the act of gouging
- noun. and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- noun. an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- verb. force with the thumb
"gouge out his eyes"
- verb. make a groove in
- verb. 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"
Synonyms
dent, ding, nick, rout, extort, rack, squeeze, wring
Common word forms
gouged, gouger, gouges, gouging
Words from these letters
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