gore
Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the airBlood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
» Don't let the bull gore you.
Meaning
14 senses(uncountable, usually)Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
Blut, geronnenes Blut
кровь, кровоподтёкkrovopodtjók
загусла кровzahusla krov
coagulated blood from a wound
(uncountable, usually)Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
(uncountable, usually)Pictures and videos of graphic violence and human death.
(uncountable, usually)Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
(US)A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
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.
A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
Gehre, Zwickel
An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
A projecting point.
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.
A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
Examples
15 sentencesDon't let the bull gore you.
My skirt has gores to make it fuller.
It's awful when a bull gores one of the runners.
The man was gored by the sheep in the stable.
The woman was gored by the sheep in the stable.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, fFrom Middle English gore, gor, gorre (“mud, muck”), from Old English gor (“manure, dung, filth, muck, dirt”), from Proto-West Germanic *gor, from Proto-Germanic *gurą (“half-digested stomach contents; faeces; manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“hot; warm”).
From Middle English gore (“patch (of land, fabric), clothes”), from Old English gāra, from Proto-West Germanic *gaiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *gaizô.
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Forms
plural: goresSynonyms
6 synonyms- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails:panel
- Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948):Al GoreAlbert Gore Jr.
- the shedding of blood resulting in murder:bloodshed
Word family
13 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable