📖 Definitions of "Gouges"
noun
- 1
Senses relating to cutting tools.
- 2
A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
"The nail left a deep gouge in the tire."
- 3
(originally United States) An act of gouging.
- 4
A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
verb
- 1
To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
"Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood."
- 2
To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
"The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers."
- 3
To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
- 4
To use a gouge.
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