gouge
noun
a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
gouged
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past participleof gouge.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof gouge.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gougenouna chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
Example Sentences
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More than 1,400 people are missing and at least 552 have been killed after a devastating, tsunami-like wall of water gouged a path through the border region between Nepal and Tibet, sweeping away entire villages.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Memory may be the new oil, but memory investors aren’t getting gouged at the pump yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Replacing the gouged front bumper was a $1,100 job and Mandell would’ve paid the first $500.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
It gouged out a 500km crater and pulverised rocks that ejected at incredibly fast speeds to form a cloud that circled around the globe.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2024
The landscape was gouged with smoking craters, fresh-turned earth thrown everywhere as if some giant dog had been digging at it.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
