Gouge vs. Gash — What's the Difference?

A chisel with a blade that has a rounded, angled, or troughlike indentation along its length.

To make a long deep cut in; slash deeply.

A scooping or digging action, as with such a chisel.

A long deep cut.

A groove or hole scooped with or as if with such a chisel.

A deep flesh wound.

(Informal) A large amount, as of money, exacted or extorted.

A deep cut.

To cut or scoop out with or as if with a gouge

A vulva.

To force out the eye of (a person) with one's thumb.

A woman.

To thrust one's thumb into the eye of.

Rubbish, spare kit.

(Informal) To extort from.

(slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft.

(Slang) To swindle.

(slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.

Senses relating to cutting tools.

(slang) Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.

A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.

(slang) Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.

A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.

Ghastly; hideous

An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.

To make a deep, long cut; to slash.

A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.

To make a gash, or long, deep incision in; - applied chiefly to incisions in flesh.

An act of gouging.

A deep and long cut; an incision of considerable length and depth, particularly in flesh.

(slang) A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.

A wound made by cutting;

(slang) An impostor.

A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.

A strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument

Information.

Cut open;

(transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.

(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.

To 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.

(intransitive) To use a gouge.

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.

A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.

An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.

Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.

The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.

An impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

And edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves

The act of gouging

Force with the thumb;

Obtain by coercion or intimidation;

Make a groove in