how to pronounce gouge

/ɡaʊdʒ/

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gouge is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of gouge in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… enough to gouge your mouth open and kill …”

meanings of gouge

noun:

A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
Information.
Senses relating to cutting tools.
A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
An act of gouging.
An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
An impostor.
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.

verb:

To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
To use a gouge.
To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.

name:

A surname.

gouge frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word gouge occurs in english on average 0.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics gouge can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that gouge can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;