GOUGING Synonyms

• the act of digging

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• offensive inquisitiveness

• offensively curious or inquisitive

• resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree

• resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree

• very good; of the highest quality

• as if striking with slashing blows

• shedding tears

• marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid

• causing great physical or mental suffering

• a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)

• a passage selected from a larger work

• remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense

• get despite difficulties or obstacles

• deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)

• extract by the process of distillation

• separate (a metal) from an ore

• obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action

• take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy

• calculate the root of a number

• one who works hard at boring tasks

• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

• a mediocre and disdained writer

• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• an old or over-worked horse

• a horse kept for hire

• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

• cut with a hacking tool

• be able to manage or manage successfully

• cut away

• kick on the arms

• kick on the shins

• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• cough spasmodically

• make an incision into by carving or cutting

• a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon

• an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish

• a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions

• move quickly, as if by cutting one's way

• pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight

• open by piercing with a lancet

• the quantity a scoop will hold

• a hollow concave shape made by removing something

• a news report that is reported first by one news organization

• street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

• the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe

• a large ladle

• take out or up with or as if with a scoop

• get the better of

• deprive of by deceit

• carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• impress or affect deeply

• carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block

• carve or cut a design or letters into

• death of a person

• a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

• a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it

• carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• make an incision into by carving or cutting

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit

• an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)

• a depression scratched or carved into a surface

• an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

• make a depression into

• a ringing sound

• an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

• go `ding dong', like a bell