What is "gouged"

Usage examples of "gouged".

Blunt fingers gouged into the tendons until Peter had all he could do not to cry out.

It chased down one of the herbivores and gouged bites out of its flank.

Salinah said, reaching for them so that all saw the cruel marks manacles had gouged in his wrists.

The needle gouged deep into the fragile paper, flinging its tip back and forth.

Adjusting her eyes to the night, she saw movement off to the right and moved toward it, almost turning her ankle in one of the footprints that Lars's angry passage had gouged in the soft sand.

She ran searching fingers under the one nearest her, finding nothing but a rough edge on one corner which produced a gouged finger.

When the mare willingly slowed, Duke and the other two bronzes screamed a protest and once again gouged her bleeding rump.

It was obvious to Moreta that the runnerbeast saw her, stared straight at her, while she gouged her message in the dirt, but Thaniel still looked through her, oblivious to the message she wanted him to see.

Mnementh, his magnificent bronze, sunning himself on a ledge, swooped down at such a rate that he gouged a narrow trench in the sand of the floor with his left wingtip.

Grooves, like the bites of a creature larger even than a dragon, had been gouged in the top, creating openings for the falls to tumble through.

Flesh gouged out of him, bits gnawed off him, but they got the tail mended.

The watch-wher's flanks were gouged, deep wounds oozing the ichor that was a watch-wher's blood.

M’kir’s left arm was in a sling, his shoulder heavily bandaged where Thread had gouged it, the left side of his head bandaged to hide the gaping hole that had once held a fierce blue eye.

Sun Valley was the shits: three dirt roads gouged from swampland forty yards off the Interstate.

The teams had been in confusion before the missiles gouged many animals into rearing agony.