Gore

Quick meaning: Gore is a noun meaning Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

The bull gored the matador.

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

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

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

Word Forms

• gores
• goring
• gored

Synonyms for gore

Depending on context, synonyms include horn, jab, run through, chef, chib, ching.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include blood, bloodshed, coagulate, stab, gaur, mountains.

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