Synonyms for gouge
gaʊdʒ

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1. dent, ding, gouge, nick(noun)

   an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

   Synonyms:
   dent, slit, incision, ding, prick, snick, scratch, nick, notch

2. gouge(noun)

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

   Synonyms:
   dent, ding, nick

3. gouge(verb)

   the act of gouging

   Synonyms:
   dent, ding, nick

4. gouge, force out(verb)

   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, fire

5. extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring(verb)

   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, constrict

6. rout, gouge(verb)

   make a groove in

   Synonyms:
   spread-eagle, spreadeagle, squeeze, wring, extort, rack, root, rootle, expel, rout out, rout, force out

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1. gouge(verb)

   Synonyms:
   engrave, swindle

2. gouge(verb)

   To make a mark or hole by scooping.

   Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.

   Synonyms:
   swindle, engrave

3. gouge(verb)

   To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.

   Synonyms:
   swindle, engrave

4. gouge(verb)

   To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

   They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.

   Synonyms:
   swindle, engrave

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. gouge(n.)

   Synonyms:
   hollow chisel

2. gouge(n.)

   Synonyms:
   [colloquial.] cheat, trick, imposture, imposition, deception, fraud, stratagem, artifice, chouse

3. gouge(n.)

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] trickster, impostor, rogue, knave, swindler, sharper, cheat, cheater

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How to use gouge in a sentence?

1. William Carner:

   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.

2. William Carner:

   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.

3. Cometan:

   To be a writer is to gouge out one’s mind, heart and soul and splatter them across the page for the world to judge.

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