From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgoregore1 /ɡɔː $ ɡɔːr/ verb [transitive] INJUREif an animal gores someone, it wounds them with its horns or tusks He was attacked and gored by a bull.Grammar Gore is often used in the passive.→ See Verb table
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gore• Whether this phenomenon is good or bad for democracy depends on whose ox is being gored.• I had not been gored, chased, or even roared at.• All three stood in the hallway, the woman backed up to the wall, a finger and thumb goring her cheeks.• It stirred the man in him even as it gored him.• Below: An aging male babirusa that appears near to the day when it slowly gores itself through its forehead.goregore2 noun [uncountable] literaryHBM thick dark blood that has flowed from a wound → gory He likes movies with plenty of blood and gore (=violence).Examples from the Corpus
gore• A gore or gusset is, in fact, another name for a scoot.• He was dimly tempted to say, though, that he knew a thing or two about gore.• Yes, sir, the vicious Canuck will not rest until the Republic is lying in its own blood and gore!• There is more than one way to skin a theatrical cat, and McDonagh's chosen weapons are laughter and gore.• To obtain the cupped or hemispherical shape with fairly smooth lines, the number of gores should be increased with the diameter.• Then you can limit the gore by just cutting off the laces to save her.• The man's cheeks were tattooed with little vermilion chalices brimming with gore.• His face was powder-stained and his uniform darkened with gore.blood and gore• It was covered in blood and gore which was fresh.• Yes, sir, the vicious Canuck will not rest until the Republic is lying in its own blood and gore!• He says it makes a change from the blood and gore on television.Origin gore1 (1300-1400) Perhaps from gore, gare “spear” ((11-14 centuries)), from Old English gar gore2 Old English gor “dirt” 