gouged's Usage Examples:

"Pray tell me anything new that has happened to a man anywhere on this globe"--and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself.

In the early days of auction sites, consumers felt gouged by shipping prices.

gouged the eye out of the third, for some trifling difference of opinion.

The design is traced on the wood with charcoal, gouged out in the rough, and finished with sharp fine tools, using the mallet for every stroke.

gouged out this wide valley.

He followed the gouged earth where the vehicle had ripped its path downward.

She gouged an eye out of the potato she was holding.

It must have been nearly three o'clock when we reached a narrow valley gouged between high, vertical walls and located 150 meters down.

As he slid away, his belt buckle gouged into her stomach and she cried out in pain.

Synonyms:

mutilate, mar, force out,

Antonyms:

cool, dry, untwist, gain,