Word: gouge

Category: gouge

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Related words: gouge

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Synonyms: gouge

waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels

Translations: gouge

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german
Translations:
hohlbeitel, hohlmeißel
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french
Translations:
carotter
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russian
Translations:
выдалбливать, долото, долбить, обманщик, канавка
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finnish
Translations:
kourutaltta, lommo, kovertaa
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czech
Translations:
vymačkat
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polish
Translations:
żłobkować, oszukiwać, rozdłubać, dłubać
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hungarian
Translations:
homorulat, kivájás, falc
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ukrainian
Translations:
видовбувати, обманщик, ошуканець
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estonian
Translations:
löögijälg, õõnespeitel
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croatian
Translations:
dlijeto

The meaning and "use of": gouge

noun
  • a chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery. - A chisel, two gouges , jewelers' shears, and the plane blade were made in Sheffield.
  • an indentation or groove made by gouging. - The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick.
verb
  • make (a groove, hole, or indentation) with or as if with a gouge. - the channel had been gouged out by the ebbing water
  • overcharge; swindle. - the airline ends up gouging the very passengers it is supposed to assist

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