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词汇 gouged
释义 gouged
past simple and past participle ofgouge
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
stab

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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 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
gouge
outprice
overcharge
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitively
sight
sky-high

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Dishonest

Phrasal verb


gouge something out

Examples of gouged


gouged

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The "cave," rather than being placed on a raised medallion, is a darkened area separated from the light area by a gouged border.
A huge cutting was gouged through the mountainside in just 12 weeks.
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If each of those sites is gouged out of reluctant authorities, one by one, the price will be very high.
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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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The walls of that elderly man's house were daubed with blood and the number 666, which is allegedly the sign of the devil, was gouged out of the floorboards.
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They also eat the exudes of plants such as gums and saps, easily gouged from the trees they are living in.
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The plane gouged a strip through the woods about 100 yards wide and 500 yards long.
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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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It is best known for its cart ruts - a complex network of tracks gouged in the rock.
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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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