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词汇 gouge
释义 gouge
verb[ T ]
uk /ɡaʊdʒ/ us /ɡaʊdʒ/

gougeverb[T] (DIG)


to dig or cut into something in a rough or violent way: 凿
gouge a holeHe drove into some railings and gouged a hole in the back of his car.他开车撞到栏杆上,把车的后部撞了个大洞。
A symbol was gouged into the surface of the wood.
He attacked the crocodile with his bare hands, gouging its eyes.
There is a crater gouged in the earth, and the plane is pretty much disintegrated.
A metal object was used to gouge a deep wound in the animal's forehead.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cutting and stabbing
abrasion
bayonet
butcher
carve
carving
chisel
chop
hew
impale
impalement
impaler
incise
scissor
score something out/through
shave
shave something off/from something
shear
shearing
sheep shearing
slash

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Making holes in things
Inserting and forcing things into other things

gougeverb[T] (CHARGE)


USinformal
to charge someone too much money for something, in a way that is dishonest or unfair:
The bill is intended to prevent loan companies gouging people with poor credit histories.
The bank hit me with a £140 charge and two days later they gouged me another £85.
They concluded that pharmacies are gouging their customers.
We're getting gouged, and nobody's doing anything about it.
He pursued me only in order to gouge a small fortune out of my father.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costing too much
bottomless pit
capital intensive
cheap
cheap at half the priceidiom
cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
cost someone a pretty pennyidiom
cost someone dearidiom
costliness
daylight robbery
dear
exorbitant
outprice
overcharge
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitive
prohibitively
sight

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Dishonest

Phrasal verb


gouge something out
gouge
noun[ C ]
uk /ɡaʊdʒ/ us /ɡaʊdʒ/
a hole or hollow that has been dug or cut into something: (凿出的)洞,孔
There are deep gouges in the soil where the car left the track.
a tool with a handle, a long, curved blade and a sharp end, used for cutting wood and stone and in surgery(= medical cutting):
The debris is cleared out with a gouge.
 
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The desk was marked with nicks and gouges, perhaps by a child's pocket-knife.
A piece of debris from the launch hit the shuttle, leaving a gouge in the heatproof tiles.
If the hole does not come quite right it may be trimmed out on the inside end with a gouge.
The cross section curve of a gouge is known as its sweep.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geography: caves, cracks & crevices
cave
cavern
chimney
crack
crater
cratered
crevasse
crevice
fissure
furrow
gulf
hole
pit
pothole
relocation
rut
rutty
speleologist
stalagmite
the San Andreas Fault

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Holes, hollows and dips
Tools

gouge | American Dictionary


gouge
verb[ T ]
us/ɡɑʊdʒ/

gougeverb[T] (DIG)


to make a hole in something, or remove something from a hole using a sharp, pointed object:
The bomb had gouged a huge hole in the roadway.

gougeverb[T] (CHEAT)


to charge someone far too much money for something done or something sold:
We didn’t know the value of the foreign money, and the taxi driver gouged us.

Examples of gouge


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In many cases the substrate to the diamictites would have been relatively soft, allowing both debris-flow and glacial movements to have formed large gouges.
As a kind of self-protection, they develop thick skins to avoid being upset by the gouging out of eyes, the smashings and the burnings.
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There is not enough money to be gouged out of the inner cities.
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What erosion will take place following clear felling where deep drains at regular intervals have been gouged out of the hillside?
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Every man had to be gouged out from the national administration by a process that was long and painful.
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The problem is worst when conditions are wet, and large ruts can be gouged in paths.
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We do not want more and more great traffic arteries gouged out through our towns, and buildings torn down to make room for the omnipresent car.
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They also forbade kicking, biting and eye gouging.
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The plane gouged a strip through the woods about 100 yards wide and 500 yards long.
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There are seven parallel, transverse, carved gouges on the left arm.
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His eye has been replaced after he gouged it out as a result of a mental attack.
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Gouges are used in wood working and arts.
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According to legend, the creator of this clock had his eyes gouged out afterward, to prevent him from reproducing it.
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Deeply gouged ravines support cooler climate species found in more northerly climes, while gradual backslope environments support species typical of the surrounding latitude.
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The maids gouged the eyes out with their fingers.
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