<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a chisel having a partly cylindrical blade with the bevel on either the concave or the convex side.</li><li>an act of gouging.</li><li>a groove or hole made by gouging.</li><li>an act or instance of extorting or overcharging; a swindle.</li><li>the amount of money extorted or overcharged: a gouge of $20 for shipping and delivery.</li><li>geology: a layer of decomposed rocks or minerals found along the walls of a vein.</li><li>fragments of rock that have accumulated between or along the walls of a fault.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to scoop out or turn with or as if with a gouge: to gouge a channel; to gouge holes.</li><li>to dig or force out with or as if with a gouge: to gouge out an eye.</li><li>to make a gouge in: to gouge one's leg.</li><li>to extort from, overcharge, or swindle: drug companies that gouge consumers and the government.</li><li>(used without object) to engage in extortion, overcharging, or swindling: I bought a lot of my clothes there before they began gouging.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>