gouge

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

gouges

1.
Senses relating to cutting tools.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
3.
(colloquial, countable, uncountable)(originally US, colloquial) An act of gouging.
4.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
Đồng nghĩa: swindle
5.
(countable, slang, uncountable)An impostor.
6.
(countable, uncountable)(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
7.
(US, slang, uncountable)(US, military, slang, uncountable) Information.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

gouges

V_ing/Gerund

gouging

V_ed/pp

gouged

1.
(transitive)To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
Đồng nghĩa: engrave, grave, incise
2.
(transitive)To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.
Đồng nghĩa: defraud, swindle
3.
(intransitive, transitive)To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
4.
(intransitive)To use a gouge.

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Đồng nghĩa

swindle engrave grave incise defraud

Cùng gốc / liên quan

fault gougegouge bit

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English gouge (chisel with concave blade; gouge), from Old French gouge, goi (gouge), from goia, gubia, gulbia (chisel; piercer), borrowed from *gulbiā, from *gulbā, *gulbi, *gulbīnos (beak, bill). The English word is cognate with gorbia, gubbia (ferrule), golb, gulba beak, goiva, gilb chisel, gubia, gylf, gylyf (sickle).