Difference between Lop Off and Gouge Out

LOP OFF vs GOUGE OUT: VERB

Cut into, Exscind, Keep apart, Serpette, Forcarve, Succision, Do away with, Prune, Clear away, Snathe, Chop down, Knock over, Whittle down, Chop off, Cut off

Snaphead, Triblet, Peck at, Exscind, Malleate, Pertuse, Rake up, Drawbore, Gouge, Saxicavous, Whittle down, Thirl, Center punch, Scrobiculate, Hew out

Forcut, Cut into, Exscind, Keep apart, Serpette, Forcarve, Succision, Do away with, Prune, Clear away, Snathe, Chop down, Knock over, Whittle down, Cut off

Snaphead, Triblet, Peck at, Exscind, Malleate, Pertuse, Rake up, Drawbore, Gouge, Saxicavous, Whittle down, Thirl, Center punch, Scrobiculate, Hew out

The Florentines usually asserted their power over the local nobles by ordering them to lop off their towers.
Sow seed in spring, then lop off the aboveground plant parts after the first frost and dig the roots.
Bill only tried to lop off a few branches, and to cut down some of the rank undergrowth.
Do you not know that I could allow you to lop off my head right now?
Those who deny that Jesus is God lop off the very branch they sit upon to make their denial.
In making a statement, lop off branches; stick to the main facts in your case.
You can lop off the ends of the bones if necessary.
Ep is fucking Conan lop off your head, volcano melting awesomeness piece as!
And if you lop off the branches, will they not die also?
We need to lop off that top branch of the tree.

A picture posted on WFXT-TV's website showed a gouge out of the Southwest jet's wingtip, the vertical part at the end of the wing.
My mother would gouge out the eye of a passing stranger if she heard someone end a sentence with a preposition.
It sort of worked but it seemed to gouge out soft areas in the counter top.
Non gouge out Sapphire crystal is work on all our Rolex Carbon copy watches.
As this plasma explosively expands, it will gouge out the same sized crater.
Thick paper, using a stylus to gouge out lines, form and textures.
To gouge out, scoop out, pluck, extract; to shell, as beans; to reach up at.