GOUGE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gouge out mean? 

• GOUGE OUT (verb)
  The verb GOUGE OUT has 1 sense:

1. make gouges into a surface

  Familiarity information: GOUGE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOUGE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make gouges into a surface

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor

Hypernyms (to "gouge out" is one way to...):

cut out (form and create by cutting out)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something