Mar vs Gouge - What's the difference?
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To spoil, to damage.
* Dryden
* Milton
A cut or groove, as left by something sharp.
A chisel, with a curved blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.
* 1823 , ,
A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
An incising tool that cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc.. from leather, paper, etc.
(mining) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein.
(slang) Imposition; cheat; fraud.
(slang) An impostor; a cheat.
To make a mark or hole by scooping.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To push, or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
* 1930 , ,
To charge an unreasonably or unfairly high price.
Mar is a related term of gouge.
As a noun mar
is sea.As a verb gouge is
.mar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Verb
(marr)- But mirth is marred , and the good cheer is lost.
- Ire, envy, and despair / Which marred all his borrowed visage.
Etymology 2
See (m).Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l) * (l) * (l), (l), (l) * (l) ----gouge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The nail left a deep gouge in the tire.
- The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine that were fluted with a gouge , and loaded with mouldings.
- (Knight)
- (Raymond)
Verb
(goug)- Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood.
- He tried to clinch and gouge , but another right hook to the jaw sent him down and out.
- They have no competition, so they tend to gouge their customers.