Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
- 3noun
An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
- 4noun
Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
- 5noun
The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
- 6noun
Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
- 7noun
the act of gouging
- 8noun
and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
- 9noun
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- 10verb
force with the thumb
"gouge out his eyes"
- 11verb
make a groove in
Synonyms
- 12verb
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"
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