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gouging
Word definitions for gouging in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rough and tumble or gouging was a form of fighting in the back-country United States, primarily in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was often characterized by the objective of gouging out an opponent's eye , and typically took place in order ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bouge \Bouge\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gouged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gouging .] To scoop out with a gouge. To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb. [K S.] Note: A barbarity mentioned by some travelers as formerly ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A mark produced by gouge. vb. (present participle of gouge English)
Usage examples of gouging.
On they rampaged along the corridors, smashing, gouging and rending as they went.
But immediately after the young mountains were born, the rain and the glaciers had begun their work, gouging and eroding, washing the mountains back to the sea: On this turbulent planet, rock flowed like water, and mountain ranges rose and fell like dreams.
Sranc, shrieking Sranc, thousands upon thousands of them, clawing black blood from their skin, gouging themselves blind.
Jacques spins around, his clawed toes gouging the dirt, seeking purchase.
Hand over hand, claws gouging into the metal, it pulls itself up the back of the vehicle, climbing onto the roof.
I watched him gouging the back-hoe into the soft earth, I became aware of a third man who had joined us.
The zombies had shown a penchant for gouging the eyes from their victims.
It would take extreme force of will to prevent herself from gouging his eyes out when they met.
Wind and water had worn crevices in the earth, like the gougings of a giant's fingers.
She hadn’t looked carefully enough when he first made his appearance: now she saw the deeply-etched lines, the gougings around his eyes and his mouth.
Manton had two malignant wounds in the chest, and some less severe cuts or gougings in the back.