gouge vs trench

gouge

verb
  • To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. 

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

  • To use a gouge. 

  • 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. 

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

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

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

  • An impostor. 

  • Information. 

  • An act of gouging. 

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

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

  • A cheat, a fraud; an imposition. 

trench

verb
  • To cut furrows or ditches in. 

  • To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next. 

  • To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy. 

  • To have direction; to aim or tend. 

  • To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc. 

  • To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit. 

  • To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach. 

noun
  • A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground. 

  • A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces. 

  • A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation. 

  • A trench coat. 

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