v. 1 chisel, gash, incise, scratch, groove, dig; scoop or hollow (out) The screwdriver slipped and gouged a piece out of the table She's so mad she wants to gouge out your eyes. 2 extort, extract, bilk, defraud, wrest, wrench, squeeze, blackmail, Colloq milk, bleed, skin, fleece, cheat, swindle The gang gouged money from their classmates by threatening to tell the teacher
n. 3 groove, furrow, scratch, gash, hollow; trench, ditch The retreating glacier cut a deep gouge in the landscape