Soak, 5 letters - Crossword clues, answers, solver (2024)

• Overcharge by a lot
• Charge too much
• Take advantage of
• Overcharge and then some
• Dig out
• What usurers do
• Chisel for cutting grooves in wood

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gouge \Gouge\, n. [F. gouge. LL. gubia, guvia, gulbia, gulvia, gulvium; cf. Bisc. gubia bow, gubioa throat.] A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "to cut with a gouge," from gouge (n.). Meaning "to force out with a gouge" (especially of the eyes, in fighting) attested by 1800. Meaning "swindle" is American English colloquial from 1826 (implied in plural noun gougers ). Related: Gouged ; gouging ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A cut or groove, as left by something sharp. 2 A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc. 3 A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding. 4 An incise tool that ...

Usage examples of gouge.

Another two strides, and he almost tripped over Issgrillikk - his agemate, friend, and foster-cousin - twisted around himself in pain at the base of one of the Great Trees, his claws gouging up the rough, grey-brown bark and tearing long white streaks into the inner wood.

Issgrillikk - his agemate, friend, and foster-cousin - twisted around himself in pain at the base of one of the Great Trees, his claws gouging up the rough, grey-brown bark and tearing long white streaks into the inner wood.

Here there was more change than the outside indicated, and Ward saw with regret that fully half of the fine scroll-and-urn overmantels and shell-carved cupboard linings were gone, whilst most of the fine wainscotting and bolection moulding was marked, hacked, and gouged, or covered up altogether with cheap wall-paper.

The platform was scarred with deep, charcoal-blistered trenches made by the reflected beams of energy weapons and pocked with thousands of splintered gouges and impact holes from ricocheting slugs and rifle pellets, and blasphemies and cabbalistic signs had been carved into the polished ancient planks, but the huge black disc of the shrine itself, being only partly of this world, was inviolate.

And in the stygian grotto I saw them do the rite, and adore the sick pillar of flame, and throw into the water handfuls gouged out of the viscous vegetation which glittered green in the chlorotic glare.

He took a deep breath and lifted his hand to touch the gouged cicatrix that sliced across his face from his good eye to the corner of his mouth.

But the others landed in soft soil gouged by the derailment and they made it okay.

They flew into a cloud of little silver hands that snatched and gouged and choked and punched, searing diabolic flesh.

The habitual spectators at the School of Medicine, the College of France, and the Faculty of Sciences, know how experiments are made on the living flesh, how muscles are divided and cut, the nerves wrenched or dilacerated, the bones broken or methodically opened with gouge, mallet, saw, and pincers.

I was sure that he intended to gouge his fingers into the sockets, to feel for the eyestrings, to blind him.

In the beginning, Ayla just followed Iza around and watched while they skinned animals, cured hides, stretched thongs cut in one spiral piece from a single hide, wove baskets, mats, or nets, gouged bowls out of logs, gathered wild foods, prepared meals, preserved meat and plant food for winter, and responded to the wishes of any man who called upon them to perform a service.

On they rampaged along the corridors, smashing, gouging and rending as they went.

But immediately after the young mountains were born, the rain and the glaciers had begun their work, gouging and eroding, washing the mountains back to the sea: On this turbulent planet, rock flowed like water, and mountain ranges rose and fell like dreams.

Sranc, shrieking Sranc, thousands upon thousands of them, clawing black blood from their skin, gouging themselves blind.

Jacques spins around, his clawed toes gouging the dirt, seeking purchase.