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Antonyms for gouge
gaʊdʒgouge
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term gouge.
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gougeverb
gougeverb
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
gougeverb
To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
gougeverb
To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.
Princeton's WordNet
dent, ding, gouge, nicknoun
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
Synonyms:
dent, slit, incision, ding, prick, snick, scratch, nick, notchgougenoun
and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
gougeverb
the act of gouging
gouge, force outverb
force with the thumb
"gouge out his eyes"
Synonyms:
crowd out, send away, extort, squeeze out, wring, rouse, can, sack, drive out, give the sack, squirt, force out, dismiss, displace, rout, squeeze, depose, eject, rack, give notice, evict, terminate, rout out, give the axe, fireextort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wringverb
obtain by coercion or intimidation
"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"
Synonyms:
pressure, crush, scud, coerce, rack, contort, thrust, press, twitch, wring from, rout, tweet, embrace, force, shove, single-foot, torment, twinge, compress, hug, wrench, contract, excruciate, extort, stuff, distort, squeeze, squash, compact, pinch, wring, hale, mash, torture, force out, bosom, wedge, deform, squelch, constrictrout, gougeverb
make a groove in
Synonyms:
spread-eagle, spreadeagle, squeeze, wring, extort, rack, root, rootle, expel, rout out, rout, force out
How to use gouge in a sentence?
They've got to show Syngenta how profitable this will be. At the same time they have to tell the markets they aren't going to gouge them. It's a nice little tightrope they've got themselves on.
If they soothe the worries of the marketplace that helps a lot, they've got to show Syngenta how profitable this will be. At the same time they have to tell the markets they aren't going to gouge them. It's a nice little tightrope they've got themselves on.
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