gouging

Meaning of gouging

verb
  1. To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
    Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
  2. To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
    The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.
  3. To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
  4. To use a gouge.

noun

A mark produced by gouging.

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Hyphenation of gouging

goug-ing

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • gouging is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

gouging synonyms

Meaning :

engrave, grave, incise, defraud, swindle

Words that rhyme with gouging

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