Meaning

Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air..

Definitions by Sense

1. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
2. (countable, obsolete) A gout or mass of such blood.
3. Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
4. Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
5. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To cover or smear with blood.
7. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with a horn or tusk.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.

Example Sentences

And I beheld the roof and the walls one gore of blood.

The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.

As a sowe waloweth in the stynkynge gore pytte, or in the puddell.

The bull gored the matador.

I have a number of these, but this gentleman up in the gore just below the arrow was traveling in the fast lane of 495.

With the addition of pavement marking arrows, erratic maneuvers such as lane changes through the gore and attempted lane changes decreased.

Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.

Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.

Word Forms

• gores
• goring
• gored

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Use gore when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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