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Meaning of gore in English

gore
noun
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/ɡɔːr/ uk
/ɡɔːr/

gore noun (BLOOD)

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[ U ]
blood, especially from violence or injury:
blood and gore It's a good movie, but there's a lot of blood and gore in it.
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gore noun (PIECE OF MATERIAL)

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a piece of material shaped like a triangle or with one end narrower than the other, used in making skirts, sails, or umbrellas:
It has extra gores of fabric in the skirt to make it all swirly and full.
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gore
verb [ T ]
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/ɡɔːr/ uk
/ɡɔːr/
(of an animal) to cause an injury to someone, or damage something, with the horns or tusks:
gored by a bull
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(Definition of gore from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

gore | Intermediate English

gore
verb [ T ]
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/ɡɔr, ɡoʊr/

gore verb [T] (INJURE)

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(of an animal) to cause an injury with the horns or tusks (= long, curved teeth):
The bullfighter was almost gored to death.
gore
noun [ U ]
us
/ɡɔr, ɡoʊr/

gore noun [U] (BLOOD)

blood that has come from an injury and become thick
(Definition of gore from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of gore

gore
We stay away from the gore and the blood.
From Chicago Daily Herald
If you're looking for gore or monsters jumping out of closets, however, look elsewhere.
From Wired
City officials said the injured included a 25-year-old man who was gored by a bull.
From ABC News
It's more gore than you can shake a stick at, so it's not for the squeamish.
From Los Angeles Times
Its fight scenes, while free of visible gore, are disproportionately violent for the age group they're aimed at.
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They're all gore, straight out of a horror scene, but one picture in particular sends shivers down my spine.
From Huffington Post
But a full taxonomy of gore would be far more varied.
From Slate Magazine
It does, however, provide plenty of the requisite gore and titillation for its young target audience.
From Hollywood Reporter
It's a wacky, odd production, with a spare mythology of horror and a penchant for surprising, stomach-turning gore.
From Variety
The last death happened when a man was gored by a bull five years ago.
From International Business Times
Sometimes bravery conquers the pain of a goring.
From Slate Magazine
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Translations of gore

in Chinese (Traditional)
（傷口流出的）血，凝固的血，血污, （動物用角或獠牙）抵傷，頂傷，戳傷…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
（伤口流出的）血，凝固的血，血污, （动物用角或獠牙）抵伤，顶伤，戳伤…
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in Spanish
sangre derramada, cornear, sangre coagulada…
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in Portuguese
sangue, imagens de extrema violência, cornear…
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şiddetli yaralamadan oluşan kan, pıhtılaşmış kan, boynuzlamak…
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sang (coagulé), encorner…
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geronnen bloed, doorboren, spietsen…
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sedlá krev, nabrat na rohy…
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størknet blod, stange…
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darah kering, menanduk…
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เลือด, แทง…
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máu đông, húc…
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krew, wziąć na rogi, ubóść…
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levrat blod, stånga, genomborra…
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darah beku, merodok…
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geronnenes Blut, durchbohren…
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levret blod, spidde, stange…
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згусла кров, буцати, колоти…
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