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[ verb ] force with the thumb

Synonyms

force_out

Examples

"gouge out his eyes"

Used in print

(Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)

Gouge , burn , blast , insult it as they would , could anyone really take Papa-san ?

(Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)

To confess with a canvas chair as a prie-dieu , gouging at his heart until a rough and stupid hand bade him rise and go ?

Related terms

mutilate gouge_out gouger

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[ verb ] make a groove in

Synonyms

groove rout

Used in print

(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)

Quickly but carefully lowering my duffel_bag over the low side rack , I stepped_on the running_board ; it flopped down , sprang back up and gouged my shin .

(T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)

Frozen , they stared at it whirling down the valley , gouging and spitting_out boulders and chunks of earth like a starving hound_dog cracking marrowbones .

Related terms

hollow dent

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[ verb ] obtain by coercion or intimidation

Examples

"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"

Used in print

(John Dos Passos, Midcentury....)

There I was a retired wobbly and structural iron_worker who 'd never gouged a cent off a fellow_worker in my thirty years in the movement .

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[ noun ] and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

Related terms

chisel edge_tool rout

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[ noun ] an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

Synonyms

nick dent

Related terms

blemish dig indent

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8927
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[ noun ] the act of gouging

Related terms

creating_by_removal

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