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gouge
[ gouj ]
noun
- a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.
- an act of gouging.
- a groove or hole made by gouging.
- an act or instance of extorting or overcharging; a swindle.
- the amount of money extorted or overcharged:
a gouge of $20 for shipping and delivery.
- Geology.
- a layer of decomposed rocks or minerals found along the walls of a vein.
- fragments of rock that have accumulated between or along the walls of a fault.
verb (used with object)
- to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge:
to gouge a channel; to gouge holes.
- to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge:
to gouge out an eye.
- to make a gouge in:
to gouge one's leg.
- to extort from, overcharge, or swindle:
drug companies that gouge consumers and the government.
verb (used without object)
- to engage in extortion, overcharging, or swindling:
I bought a lot of my clothes there before they began gouging.
gouge
/ 伞补蕣诲萧 /
verb
- usually foll by out to scoop or force (something) out of its position, esp with the fingers or a pointed instrument
- sometimes foll by out to cut (a hole or groove) in (something) with a sharp instrument or tool
- informal.to extort from
- also intr to dig for (opal)
noun
- a type of chisel with a blade that has a concavo-convex section
- a mark or groove made with, or as if with, a gouge
- geology a fine deposit of rock fragments, esp clay, occurring between the walls of a fault or mineral vein
- informal.extortion; swindling
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 驳辞耻驳路别谤 noun
- 耻苍路驳辞耻驳别诲 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of gouge1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of gouge1
Example Sentences
鈥淭here are serious concerns about discrimination or price gouging and this happens in a black box that we don鈥檛 always know about,鈥 Geoghegan said.
Researchers found distinctive scratch marks left by the drifting icebergs as they gouged deep tracks into the North Sea floor more than 18,000 years ago.
Product shortages created by stockpiling and panic purchases often lead to price gouging, Thornberg said.
It was a minor miracle in the current L.A. market of limited availability and price gouging.
On grocery prices, Trump鈥檚 take was about as simplistic as that of Democratic opponent Kamala Harris, who promised to crack down on price gouging.
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