GOUGES Synonyms

• 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

• obtain through intimidation

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner

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

• (British slang) a prison

• a small cut

• cut slightly, with a razor

• cut a nick into

• divide or reset the tail muscles of

• mate successfully; of livestock

• rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton

• the destruction or collapse of something

• an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims

• a support for displaying ot holding various articles

• a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body

• a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately

• go at a rack

• stretch to the limits

• put on a rack and pinion

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• run before a gale

• fly in high wind

• draw off from the lees

• torment emotionally or mentally

• work on a rack

• seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block

• place in a rack

• torture on the rack

• a disorderly crowd of people

• an overwhelming defeat

• cause to flee

• dig with the snout

• make a groove in

• defeat disastrously

• the act of gripping and pressing firmly

• a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high

• a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer

• (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend

• a twisting squeeze

• an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power

• a tight or amorous embrace

• the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• press firmly

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• press or force

• squeeze tightly between the fingers

• hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

• squeeze or press together

• a twisting squeeze

• twist and press out of shape

• twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid