gouging

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gouging

Rhymes with -aʊdʒɪŋ

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of gouge

noun gougings

countable, uncountable The act of one who gouges. He remembered calling out: "Let up, now—no fair gouging!" and then he crawled from under the lion…
countable A mark produced by gouging. The damage consists in general of more or less deep cuts or gougings on the flesh side of the hide, often penetrating through the hide to the grain side.

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@misc{gouging_2026,
  title = {gouging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gouging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}