English Dictionary

gouge

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡaʊdʒ/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. / (transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.

日本語の意味

（彫刻刀などを使って）くぼみや穴、線を彫る、掘り込む。 / 不当に高い価格を請求する、ぼったくる

She used the chisel to gouge a shallow channel along the edge of the plank.

彼女はのみを使って板の端に浅い溝を彫った。

意味（1）

(transitive) 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.

意味（2）

(transitive) 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.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) 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.

The recorded cases in which the constituents of the joint were removed at different times, and those also in which the bones or portions of the bones were gouged away, do not by any means afford satisfactory results.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To use a gouge.

Blocks are alſo pieces of wood belonging to ſhips, in which the ſhivers, or ſheaves, of pullies are placed, and wherein the running ropes go. … The blocks are then jambed up edgeways with wedges in a clave, and the ſheave-holes are made in this manner: the length and breadth are firſt gouged out, and holes are bored half way through the block, along the part gouged out, with an augre of the ſize of the ſheave-hole; then the ſheave-hole is gouged and bored on the oppoſite ſide in the ſame manner, ſo as to meet the oppoſite holes.

gouges （ present singular third-person ）

gouging （ participle present ）

gouged （ participle past ）

gouged （ past ）