cavare — meaning in English

English meaning

• extract verb To pull or draw something out, often with effort or force.
• gouge noun A chisel with a curved blade, used to cut grooves or hollows into wood or stone.
• strip noun A long, narrow piece of material or land.

Senses

cavare is used for these senses in English:

• extract (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
• gouge (transitive, intransitive) 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.
• strip (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
• strip (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• take out (idiom) To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.

extract — full definition

1. verb To pull or draw something out, often with effort or force.
2. noun A short passage taken from a longer piece of writing, speech, or recording.
3. noun A concentrated substance obtained by drawing out the essential part of something.

gouge — full definition

1. noun A chisel with a curved blade, used to cut grooves or hollows into wood or stone.
2. noun A groove or hole left behind, as if cut by such a tool.
3. verb To dig, scoop, or cut a groove or hole into something.
4. verb To overcharge someone, especially by taking unfair advantage of a situation.

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