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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She touted the low transport costs for spectators, the free fan festival and "that you're not going to be price gouged when it comes to hotels" as making Philadelphia the best value US venue.
From Barron's ● Apr. 29, 2026
LUMEZI, Zambia—Three-year-old Dickson Ngwira was deep into his afternoon nap when half a dozen elephants, using trunks as trowels, gouged a five-foot-wide hole in the brick wall near his bed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Replacing the gouged front bumper was a $1,100 job and Mandell would’ve paid the first $500.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 23, 2025
Someone had gouged out the two S’s in a Cesar Chavez quote about “drawing the goodne...” out of students.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
The route took us up the gently sloping floor of the Western Cwm, the highest box canyon on earth, a horseshoe-shaped defile gouged from the heart of the Everest massif by the Khumbu Glacier.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
