Synonyms for gouge
gaʊdʒgouge

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1. gougeverb

   Synonyms:
   engrave, swindle

2. gougeverb

   To make a mark or hole by scooping.

   Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.

   Synonyms:
   swindle, engrave

3. gougeverb

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

   Synonyms:
   swindle, engrave

4. gougeverb

   To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.

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

   Synonyms:
   swindle, engrave

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1. dent, ding, gouge, nicknoun

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

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

2. gougenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   dent, ding, nick

3. gougeverb

   the act of gouging

   Synonyms:
   dent, ding, nick

4. 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, fire

5. extort, 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, constrict

6. rout, gougeverb

   make a groove in

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

Matched Categories

1. • Blemish
   • Edge Tool

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1. gougenoun

   Synonyms:
   hollow chisel

2. gougenoun

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

3. gougenoun

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

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How to use gouge in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. 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.