gouge
noun
a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
had gouged
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past perfectof gouge.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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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
Within two minutes of slamming into Earth, the asteroid, which was at least six miles wide, had gouged a crater about eighteen miles deep and lofted twenty-five trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 29, 2019
He said one of the bolts that secured them had been bent and another had gouged a groove in the asphalt.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2014
He saw the two bright red scratches on the back ofJerry Lee’s hand, like a car had gouged him from the wrist to the knuckles.
From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2013
Someone or something had gouged a long, deep line into the cave wall.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
