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gore

UK /ɡɔː/US /ɡoɹ/

noun14

  1. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
  2. Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
  3. Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
  4. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
  5. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
  6. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
  7. (US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
  8. A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
  9. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.
  10. A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
  11. A projecting point.
  12. Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
  13. (no longer used) A gout or mass of such blood.
  14. (dialect, no longer used) A triangular strip of land left over at the end of a not-fully-rectangular field.

verb6

  1. To pierce with a horn or tusk.
  2. To provide with a gore.
  3. To cut into a triangular form.
  4. (no longer used) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
  5. (figurative, no longer used) To needle or wound the feelings of.
  6. (no longer used) To cover or smear with blood.
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