The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - gouge v.

1) chisel, gash, incise, scratch, groove, dig; scoop or hollow (out) : The screwdriver slipped and gouged a piece out of the table. She's so mad she wants to gouge out your eyes. 2) extort, extract, bilk, defraud, wrest, wrench, squeeze, blackmail, Colloq milk, bleed, skin, fleece, cheat, swindle: The gang gouged money from their classmates by threatening to tell the teacher. --n. 3) groove, furrow, scratch, gash, hollow; trench, ditch: The retreating glacier cut a deep gouge in the landscape.