gouge out

1. 1.

   make gouges into a surface

   “The woman's spiked heels gouged out the wooden floor”

   Broadercut out

Questions about gouge out

What does gouge out mean?

gouge out means "make gouges into a surface".

Is gouge out a common word?

gouge out is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.