eye gouging
Brutal orbital assault
Eye gouging is the act of pressing, digging, or tearing at someone's eyes with fingers or thumbs, typically to cause pain or blindness.
It's a brutal attack forbidden in most combat sports but sometimes appears in street fights or self-defense situations.
The term also describes any ruthlessly aggressive tactic: eye-gouging competition for market share.
- socketHollow receiving cavity
- brutalSavagely harsh or severe
- fingersAppendages of the hand
- thumbShort opposable digit
- blindLacking the sense of sight
vision · orbital · attack · savage · fight · injury · trauma · grappling · self-defense · violent · bloody · cornea · retina · soft tissue · excruciating · pain threshold · barbaric · no holds barred
- dirty playcheap shot, cheap shots, dirty play, foul play, late hit
- foulslow blow, headbutt, biting, rabbit punch, groin kick
- rugbyscrum, try, rugby, Rugby World Cup, rugby union
- bodily harmhurt, injure, wound, harm, injuries
eye gougingeye care
Maintaining healthy sight
eye protection · vision correction · ophthalmology · eye surgery · eye drops
eye, eyes, eyed, eyeing, eyeless, eyelet, gouge, gouges, gouged