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[ verb ] force with the thumb
Synonyms 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 ? |
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[ verb ] make a groove in
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 . |
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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 . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 8927
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[ noun ] the act of gouging
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