gouge
US: /ˈɡaʊdʒ/
UK: /ɡˈaʊdʒ/
UK: /ɡˈaʊdʒ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
gouge /gaudʤ/
- danh từ
- (kỹ thuật) cái đục máng, cái đục khum
- rânh máng; lỗ đục tròn
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) sự lừa đảo, sự lừa gạt
- ngoại động từ
- ((thường) + out) đục bằng, đục máng
- khoét ra, moi ra, móc ra
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) lừa dối, lừa đảo, lừa gạt (ai)
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun
+ verb [VN]
1 ~ sth (in sth) to make a hole or cut in sth with a sharp object in a rough or violent way: The lion's claws had gouged a wound in the horse's side. + He had gouged her cheek with a screwdriver.
2 (AmE) to force sb to pay an unfairly high price for sth; to raise prices unfairly: Housing shortages permit landlords to gouge their renters. + Price gouging is widespread.
Phrasal Verbs: gouge sth<->out (of sth) to remove or form sth by digging into a surface: The man's eyes had been gouged out. + Glaciers gouged out valleys from the hills.
+ noun
1 a sharp tool for making hollow areas in wood
2 a deep, narrow hole or cut in a surface: The massive wheels were digging great gouges in the road's surface.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 chisel, gash, incise, scratch, groove, dig; scoop or hollow (out):
The screwdriver slipped and gouged a piece out of the table. She's so mad she wants to gouge out your eyes.
2 extort, extract, bilk, defraud, wrest, wrench, squeeze, blackmail, Colloq milk, bleed, skin, fleece, cheat, swindle:
The gang gouged money from their classmates by threatening to tell the teacher.
n.
3 groove, furrow, scratch, gash, hollow; trench, ditch:
The retreating glacier cut a deep gouge in the landscape.
Concise English dictionary
gouges|gouged|gouginggaʊdʒ
noun
+an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
+and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves
+the act of gouging
verb
+force with the thumb
+obtain by coercion or intimidation
+make a groove in
