Meaning

1 senses

  1. To remove by gouging.

    gouge out someone's eye

More definitions
  • make gouges into a surface

Examples

7 sentences

  1. I'm going to gouge my eyes out.

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  2. I would gladly gouge out my eyes.

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  3. A man would be better off blind than have both his eyes gouged out.

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  4. I will cut off his tongue and gouge out his eyes!

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  5. He gouged out his eyes so he would never again see the homeland he had betrayed.

    deEr stach sich die Augen aus, auf dass er sein verraten Vaterland nie mehr würde wiedersehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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Forms

gouges out, gouging out, gouged out, gouged out
Base formgouge out · to gouge out
3rd person singulargouges out
Present participlegouging out
Past simplegouged out
Past participlegouged out

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygouge out
he, she, itgouges out

Past simpleLesson

all personsgouged out

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gouged out
he, she, ithas gouged out

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill gouge out

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gothgottagougegoulashgourdgourmandgourmetC1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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