gouge(v = verb.possession) extort, rack, squeeze, wring - obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"

is one way to fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge

Derived form noun gouger₂

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something from somebody

gouge(v = verb.contact) rout - make a groove in; Array

is one way to core out, hollow, hollow out

Derived forms noun gouge₂, noun gouge₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

gouge, n. [F. gouge. LL. gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; cf. Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa throat.].

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood. [1913 Webster]
A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve. [1913 Webster]
An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc. Knight. [1913 Webster]
Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge. [1913 Webster]
Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person. [1913 Webster]

Gouge bit, a boring bit, shaped like a gouge.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

gouge, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a chisel with a concave blade, used in carpentry, sculpture, and surgery. b an indentation or groove made with or as with this.
2 US colloq. a swindle.
--v.
1 tr. cut with or as with a gouge.
2 tr. a (foll. by out) force out (esp. an eye with the thumb) with or as with a gouge. b force out the eye of (a person).
3 tr. US colloq. swindle; extort money from.
4 intr. Austral. dig for opal.

Derivative

gouger n.

Etymology

F f. LL gubia, perh. of Celt. orig.

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THESAURUS

gouge

alveolation, alveolus, auger, avulse, bandage, beat, bedazzle, beguile of, benight, bezel, bilk, bite, blackmail, bleed, bleed white, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, bore, broach, bunco, burn, burrow, canal, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chase, cheat, chink, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, clip, cog, cog the dice, con, corrugate, corrugation, countersink, cozen, crack, cranny, crib, crimp, cut, cut out, cutthroat, dado, darken, daze, dazzle, defraud, delve, dent, deprive of sight, deracinate, diddle, dig, dig out, dig up, dike, dim, dimple, dint, disentangle, ditch, do in, do out of, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drill, drive, eclipse, empierce, engrave, engraving, eradicate, euchre, evolve, evulse, exact, exacting, excavate, excecate, excessive, excise, exorbitant, exploit, exsect, extort, extortionate, extract, extravagant, extricate, fancy, finagle, fix, flam, fleece, flimflam, flute, fluting, fob, fudge, furrow, gash, get out, glare, goffer, gore, gouge out, gouging, groove, grossly overpriced, grub, grub up, gull, gully, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold up, hole, hollow, hollow out, honeycomb, hoodwink, immoderate, impale, impress, impression, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation, indention, indenture, inflationary, inordinate, lance, lower, make blind, microgroove, milk, mine, mulct, needle, notch, obscure, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overcharge, overprice, overpriced, overtax, pack the deal, penetrate, perforate, pick out, pierce, pigeon, pinch, pink, pit, pleat, plow, pluck out, pluck up, pock, pockmark, practice fraud upon, preposterous, prick, print, profiteer, prohibitive, pull, pull out, pull up, punch, puncture, quarry, rabbet, rake out, ream, ream out, remove, riddle, rifle, rifling, rip out, rook, root out, root up, ruck, run through, rut, sap, scam, scoop, scoop out, score, scrabble, scrape, scratch, screw, sell gold bricks, shake, shave, shortchange, shovel, sink, skewer, skin, skyrocketing, slit, snow-blind, soak, spade, spear, spike, spiraling, spit, squeeze, stab, stack the cards, stick, sting, streak, stria, striate, striation, strike blind, sulcation, sulcus, sunken part, surcharge, swindle, take a dive, take out, tap, tear out, thimblerig, throw a fight, transfix, transpierce, trench, trepan, trephine, trough, tunnel, unconscionable, undue, unearth, unravel, unreasonable, unwarranted, uproot, usurious, victimize, weed out, well-worn groove, withdraw, wrench, wrest, wrest out, wrinkle

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ROGET THESAURUS

gouge

Concavity

VB be concave, retire, cave in, render concave, depress, hollow, scoop, scoop out, gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in.

Perforator

N perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel, gimlet, stylet, drill, wimble, awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier, corkscrew, dibble, trocar, trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto, rimer, warder, lancet, punch, puncheon, spikebit, gouge, spear, puncher, punching machine, punching press, punch pliers.

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