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GOUGED

6 letters

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Classic 3 pts
Big 3 pts
Super Big 3 pts

GOUGED is a valid 6-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 3 in Classic, 3 in Big, and 3 in Super Big Boggle.

GOUGED root GOUGE-d

Word family

GOUGE 2 GOUGES-s 3 GOUGING 5
noun
  1. countableuncountableA chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
  2. countableuncountableA bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
  3. countableuncountableAn incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
  4. countableuncountableA cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
    • The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
  5. colloquialcountableuncountableAn act of gouging.
  6. countableslanguncountableA cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
  7. countableslanguncountableAn impostor.
  8. countableuncountableSoft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
  9. USslanguncountableInformation.
verb
  1. transitiveTo make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
    • Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
  2. transitiveTo cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
    • The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers.
  3. intransitivetransitiveTo 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.
  4. intransitiveTo use a gouge.